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2022-10-02kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updatedMasahiro Yamada1-1/+20
When include/linux/export-internal.h is updated, .vmlinux.export.o must be rebuilt, but it does not happen because its rule is hidden behind scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. Move it out of the shell script, so that Make can see the dependency between vmlinux and .vmlinux.export.o. Move the vmlinux rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2022-05-24kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCSMasahiro Yamada1-0/+32
include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_* as a placeholder. Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset to the reference of CRC. It is time to get rid of this complexity. Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs, it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules. Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before, *.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal. No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not. CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed. Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in objects, but this step is unneeded too. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)