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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
index 61b2181ed3ea..ef19b9c13523 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
@@ -77,6 +77,17 @@ HOSTLDLIBS
----------
Additional libraries to link against when building host programs.
+.. _userkbuildflags:
+
+USERCFLAGS
+----------
+Additional options used for $(CC) when compiling userprogs.
+
+USERLDFLAGS
+-----------
+Additional options used for $(LD) when linking userprogs. userprogs are linked
+with CC, so $(USERLDFLAGS) should include "-Wl," prefix as applicable.
+
KBUILD_KCONFIG
--------------
Set the top-level Kconfig file to the value of this environment
@@ -105,6 +116,15 @@ The output directory can also be specified using "O=...".
Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.
+KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN
+-----------------
+Specify the extra build checks. The same value can be assigned by passing
+W=... from the command line.
+
+See `make help` for the list of the supported values.
+
+Setting "W=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN.
+
KBUILD_DEBARCH
--------------
For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by
@@ -228,7 +248,7 @@ This is solely useful to speed up test compiles.
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
--------------------
For modules that use symbols from other modules.
-See more details in modules.txt.
+See more details in modules.rst.
ALLSOURCE_ARCHS
---------------
@@ -241,11 +261,6 @@ To get all available archs you can also specify all. E.g.::
$ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all tags
-KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS
-------------------------------
-If enabled over the make command line with "W=1", it turns on additional
-gcc -W... options for more extensive build-time checking.
-
KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
----------------------
Setting this to a date string overrides the timestamp used in the
@@ -259,16 +274,7 @@ These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during
boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
whoami and host, respectively.
-KBUILD_LDS
-----------
-The linker script with full path. Assigned by the top-level Makefile.
-
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS
--------------------
-All object files for vmlinux. They are linked to vmlinux in the same
-order as listed in KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS.
-
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
--------------------
-All .a "lib" files for vmlinux. KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS and KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
-together specify all the object files used to link vmlinux.
+LLVM
+----
+If this variable is set to 1, Kbuild will use Clang and LLVM utilities instead
+of GCC and GNU binutils to build the kernel.