On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 10:31:21PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we do > for the vmlinux one (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512). > > The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter > is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by > 'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean' (also, it must be created by > 'make modules_prepare'). > > You cannot put it in arch/*/kernel/ because 'make clean' descends into > it. I moved arch/*/kernel/module.lds to arch/*/include/asm/module.lds.h, > which is included from scripts/module.lds.S. > > scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the build > artifacts under scripts/. > > You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- For the arm64 bits: Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Will
