include/linux/kbuild.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

include/linux/kbuild.h

Extension

.h

Size

380 bytes

Lines

17

Domain

Core OS

Bucket

Core Kernel Interface

Inferred role

Core OS: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.

• Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef __LINUX_KBUILD_H
#define __LINUX_KBUILD_H

#define DEFINE(sym, val) \
	asm volatile("\n.ascii \"->" #sym " %0 " #val "\"" : : "i" (val))

#define BLANK() asm volatile("\n.ascii \"->\"" : : )

#define OFFSET(sym, str, mem) \
	DEFINE(sym, offsetof(struct str, mem))

#define COMMENT(x) \
	asm volatile("\n.ascii \"->#" x "\"")

#endif

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Core OS / Core Kernel Interface.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.