On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:45 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Masahiro, Michal,
>
> While updating our systems from 4.9 to 5.4, we noticed that one of the
> kernel modules that we build, which is done by linking an object that we
> pre-compile out of Kbuild stopped working.
>
> I bisected it down to:
>
> commit 69ea912fda74a673d330d23595385e5b73e3a2b9 (refs/bisect/bad)
> Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 4 13:25:19 2018 +0900
>
> kbuild: remove unneeded link_multi_deps
>
> Since commit c8589d1e9e01 ("kbuild: handle multi-objs dependency
> appropriately"), $^ really represents all the prerequisite of the
> composite object being built.
>
> Hence, $(filter %.o,$^) contains all the objects to link together,
> which is much simpler than link_multi_deps calculation.
>
> Please note $(filter-out FORCE,$^) does not work here. When a single
> object module is turned into a multi object module, $^ will contain
> header files that were previously included for building the single
> object, and recorded in the .*.cmd file. To filter out such headers,
> $(filter %.o,$^) should be used here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> and the linker now fails with the following:
>
> mkdir -p /home/florian/dev/lkm/.tmp_versions ; rm -f
> /home/florian/dev/lkm/.tmp_versions/*
>
> WARNING: Symbol version dump ./Module.symvers
> is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
>
> make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=/home/florian/dev/lkm
> (cat /dev/null; echo kernel//home/florian/dev/lkm/hello.ko;) >
> /home/florian/dev/lkm/modules.order
> ld -m elf_x86_64 -z max-page-size=0x200000 -r -o
> /home/florian/dev/lkm/hello.o
> ld: no input files
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:492: /home/florian/dev/lkm/hello.o]
> Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:1530: _module_/home/florian/dev/lkm] Error 2
>
> and here are some steps to reproduce this:
>
> Kbuild:
> obj-m := hello.o
> hello-y := test.o_shipped
>
> test.c can be a simple hello world, and you can compile it using a
> standard Kbuild file first, and then move test.o as test.o_shipped.
Why don't you do like this?
obj-m := hello.o
hello-y := test.o
> I am afraid I do not speak Kbuild fluently enough to recommend a fix for
> that.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Florian
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
