kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost

.vmlinux.objs is used by modpost, so scripts/Makefile.modpost is
a better place to generate it.

It is used only when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. It should be guarded
by "ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS".

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 317e9f09440c33f0b9ade1be3218a36bfaac2eab..dac4ca2b900cb5521940e512b63b0090402efcda 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ endif # CONFIG_MODULES
 # Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
 CLEAN_FILES += include/ksym vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
               modules.builtin modules.builtin.modinfo modules.nsdeps \
-              compile_commands.json .thinlto-cache
+              compile_commands.json .thinlto-cache .vmlinux.objs
 
 # Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
 MRPROPER_FILES += include/config include/generated          \

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 911606496341ca66a34365dcd29f5cc0d09ff0dd..04ad00917b2f0ef2be84a10f060bcd4d9459c97d 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -57,6 +57,32 @@ vmlinux.symvers: vmlinux.o
 
 __modpost: vmlinux.symvers
 
+# Generate the list of in-tree objects in vmlinux
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# This is used to retrieve symbol versions generated by genksyms.
+ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
+vmlinux.symvers: .vmlinux.objs
+endif
+
+# Ignore libgcc.a
+# Some architectures do '$(CC) --print-libgcc-file-name' to borrow libgcc.a
+# from the toolchain, but there is no EXPORT_SYMBOL in it.
+
+quiet_cmd_vmlinux_objs = GEN     $@
+      cmd_vmlinux_objs =               \
+       for f in $(real-prereqs); do    \
+               case $${f} in           \
+               *libgcc.a) ;;           \
+               *.a) $(AR) t $${f} ;;   \
+               *) echo $${f} ;;        \
+               esac                    \
+       done > $@
+
+targets += .vmlinux.objs
+.vmlinux.objs: $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS) $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS) FORCE
+       $(call if_changed,vmlinux_objs)
+
 else
 
 ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
@@ -134,6 +160,8 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL),1)
        $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
 endif
 
+endif
+
 PHONY += FORCE
 FORCE:
 
@@ -141,6 +169,4 @@ existing-targets := $(wildcard $(sort $(targets)))
 
 -include $(foreach f,$(existing-targets),$(dir $(f)).$(notdir $(f)).cmd)
 
-endif
-
 .PHONY: $(PHONY)

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 8d982574145acdcb0d886ec7cc106403e8bd21ac..161bca64e8aac374dece369f79e0ac093d67fc6b 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ cleanup()
        rm -f System.map
        rm -f vmlinux
        rm -f vmlinux.map
-       rm -f .vmlinux.objs
        rm -f .vmlinux.export.c
 }
 
@@ -218,23 +217,6 @@ fi
 #link vmlinux.o
 ${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o"
 
-# Generate the list of in-tree objects in vmlinux
-#
-# This is used to retrieve symbol versions generated by genksyms.
-for f in ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS} ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS}; do
-       case ${f} in
-       *libgcc.a)
-               # Some architectures do '$(CC) --print-libgcc-file-name' to
-               # borrow libgcc.a from the toolchain.
-               # There is no EXPORT_SYMBOL in external objects. Ignore this.
-               ;;
-       *.a)
-               ${AR} t ${f} ;;
-       *)
-               echo ${f} ;;
-       esac
-done > .vmlinux.objs
-
 # modpost vmlinux.o to check for section mismatches
 ${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.modpost" MODPOST_VMLINUX=1