2018-02-12 13:22 GMT+09:00 Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Masahiro-san,
>
> As I remember, init/ is already built during recursive make, and I did
> a clean build(make mrproper, make localmodconfig) with all plugins
> included on x86_64 with following patch, the kernel can boot without any
> obvious problem. So, I don't figure out why we need this final build?
>
>
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index e6818b8e7141..086b2efd4d53 100755
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -247,9 +247,6 @@ else
> expr 0$(cat .old_version) + 1 >.version;
> fi;
>
> -# final build of init/
> -${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.build" obj=init
> GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS="${GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS}"
> -
> archive_builtin
>
> #link vmlinux.o
>
link-vmlinux.sh increments '.version'
so it must descend into init/
to update include/generated/compile.h
and re-compile init/version.o
We do not increment '.version'
at the first descend into init/
because we never know whether the kernel
is updated or not before the final link stage.
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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