Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] modpost: Add modinfo flag to livepatch modules

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On 8/16/19 8:43 AM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
On 8/16/19 4:19 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
Hi,

I cleaned up the build system, and pushed it based on my
kbuild tree.

Please see:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git
klp-cleanup

This indeed looks much simpler and cleaner (as far as I can judge with my
limited kbuild knowledge). We just need to remove MODULE_INFO(livepatch,
"Y") from lib/livepatch/test_klp_convert_mod_a.c to make it compile and
work (test_klp_convert_mod_a is not a livepatch module, it is just a dummy
module which is then livepatched by lib/livepatch/test_klp_convert1.c).


Yeah, Masahiro this is great, thanks for reworking this!

I did tweak one module like Miroslav mentioned and I think a few of the
newly generated files need to be cleaned up as part of "make clean", but
all said, this is a nice improvement.


Well actually, now I see this comment in the top-level Makefile:

# Cleaning is done on three levels. # make clean Delete most generated files # Leave enough to build external modules # make mrproper Delete the current configuration, and all generated files # make distclean Remove editor backup files, patch leftover files and the like

I didn't realize that we're supposed to be able to still build external modules after "make clean". If that's the case, then one might want to build an external klp-module after doing that.

With that in mind, shouldn't Symbols.list to persist until mrproper? And I think modules-livepatch could go away during clean, what do you think?

-- Joe



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