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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-09-24 21:19:14 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-10-02 12:04:05 +0300
commit3216484550610470013b7ce1c9ed272da0a74589 (patch)
treee24e7df02e90b7e798ae5aa67a5e4468142978c8 /scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
parent4b0986590062ce12c134c00cf32b9f9b846aeff5 (diff)
downloadlinux-3216484550610470013b7ce1c9ed272da0a74589.tar.xz
kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head
The objects placed at the head of vmlinux need special treatments: - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile adds them to head-y in order to place them before other archives in the linker command line. - arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile adds them to extra-y instead of obj-y to avoid them going into built-in.a. This commit gets rid of the latter. Create vmlinux.a to collect all the objects that are unconditionally linked to vmlinux. The objects listed in head-y are moved to the head of vmlinux.a by using 'ar m'. With this, arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile can consistently use obj-y for builtin objects. There is no *.o that is directly linked to vmlinux. Drop unneeded code in scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py. $(AR) mPi needs 'T' to workaround the llvm-ar bug. The fix was suggested by Nathan Chancellor [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/YyjjT5gQ2hGMH0ni@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/link-vmlinux.sh')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/link-vmlinux.sh10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 6a197d8a88ac..23ac13fd9d89 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -3,17 +3,15 @@
#
# link vmlinux
#
-# vmlinux is linked from the objects selected by $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS) and
-# $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS). Most are built-in.a files from top-level directories
-# in the kernel tree, others are specified in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
+# vmlinux is linked from the objects in vmlinux.a and $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS).
+# vmlinux.a contains objects that are linked unconditionally.
# $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS) are archives which are linked conditionally
# (not within --whole-archive), and do not require symbol indexes added.
#
# vmlinux
# ^
# |
-# +--< $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS)
-# | +--< init/built-in.a drivers/built-in.a mm/built-in.a + more
+# +--< vmlinux.a
# |
# +--< $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS)
# | +--< lib/lib.a + more
@@ -67,7 +65,7 @@ vmlinux_link()
objs=vmlinux.o
libs=
else
- objs="${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS}"
+ objs=vmlinux.a
libs="${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS}"
fi