linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost
Masahiro Yamada 39808e451f kbuild: do not read $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers
Since commit 040fcc819a ("kbuild: improved modversioning support for
external modules"), the external module build reads Module.symvers in
the directory of the module itself, then dumps symbols back into it.
It accumulates stale symbols in the file when you build an external
module incrementally.

The idea behind it was, as the commit log explained, you can copy
Modules.symvers from one module to another when you need to pass symbol
information between two modules. However, the manual copy of the file
sounds questionable to me, and containing stale symbols is a downside.

Some time later, commit 0d96fb20b7 ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced a saner approach.

So, this commit removes the former one. Going forward, the external
module build dumps symbols into Module.symvers to be carried via
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, but never reads it automatically.

With the -I option removed, there is no one to set the external_module
flag unless KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS is passed. Now the -i option does it
instead.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-11-11 20:07:03 +09:00

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Makefile

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# ===========================================================================
# Module versions
# ===========================================================================
#
# Stage one of module building created the following:
# a) The individual .o files used for the module
# b) A <module>.o file which is the .o files above linked together
# c) A <module>.mod file, listing the name of the preliminary <module>.o file,
# plus all .o files
# d) modules.order, which lists all the modules
# Stage 2 is handled by this file and does the following
# 1) Find all modules listed in modules.order
# 2) modpost is then used to
# 3) create one <module>.mod.c file pr. module
# 4) create one Module.symvers file with CRC for all exported symbols
# Step 3 is used to place certain information in the module's ELF
# section, including information such as:
# Version magic (see include/linux/vermagic.h for full details)
# - Kernel release
# - SMP is CONFIG_SMP
# - PREEMPT is CONFIG_PREEMPT[_RT]
# - GCC Version
# Module info
# - Module version (MODULE_VERSION)
# - Module alias'es (MODULE_ALIAS)
# - Module license (MODULE_LICENSE)
# - See include/linux/module.h for more details
# Step 4 is solely used to allow module versioning in external modules,
# where the CRC of each module is retrieved from the Module.symvers file.
# KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined
# symbols in the final module linking stage
# KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules.
# This is solely useful to speed up test compiles
PHONY := __modpost
__modpost:
include include/config/auto.conf
include scripts/Kbuild.include
kernelsymfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
modulesymfile := $(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/Module.symvers
MODPOST = scripts/mod/modpost \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(kernelsymfile) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(addprefix -e ,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS))) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile)) \
$(if $(CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY),,-E) \
$(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w) \
$(if $(filter nsdeps,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),-d)
ifdef MODPOST_VMLINUX
quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST vmlinux.o
cmd_modpost = $(MODPOST) vmlinux.o
__modpost:
$(call cmd,modpost)
else
MODPOST += $(subst -i,-n,$(filter -i,$(MAKEFLAGS))) -s -T -
ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
MODPOST += $(wildcard vmlinux)
else
# set src + obj - they may be used in the modules's Makefile
obj := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)
src := $(obj)
# Include the module's Makefile to find KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile)
endif
# find all modules listed in modules.order
modules := $(sort $(shell cat $(MODORDER)))
# Read out modules.order instead of expanding $(modules) to pass in modpost.
# Otherwise, allmodconfig would fail with "Argument list too long".
quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $(words $(modules)) modules
cmd_modpost = sed 's/ko$$/o/' $(MODORDER) | $(MODPOST)
__modpost:
@$(kecho) ' Building modules, stage 2.'
$(call cmd,modpost)
ifneq ($(KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL),1)
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
endif
nsdeps: __modpost
endif
.PHONY: $(PHONY)