Re: [PATCH 00/27] kbuild: yet another series of cleanups (modpost and LTO)

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:11 AM Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 04:07:44AM +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > This is the third batch of cleanups in this development cycle.
> >
> > This weekend, I wrote up the code I have been planning.
> >
> > After a bunch of modpost refactoring, I got rid of the ugly code
> > in Makefiles.
> >
> > With this, Kbuild will get back much simpler and cleaner.
> >
>
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> I tried applying the patch set onto your kbuild and
> kbuild-fixes-v5.18, but it didn't apply.  Can you give me
> a hint on your commit base?


This series is based on  linux-kbuild/kbuild branch
7c39c50dcb74 ("scripts: dummy-tools, add pahole")


Anyway, this series is too big.
For convenience, I pushed this to a topic branch.

Please try:

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





> Kind regards,
> Nicolas
>
> >
> > Masahiro Yamada (27):
> >   modpost: use snprintf() instead of sprintf() for safety
> >   modpost: do not write out any file when error occurred
> >   modpost: remove stale comment about sym_add_exported()
> >   modpost: add a separate error for exported symbols without definition
> >   modpost: retrieve the module dependency and CRCs in check_exports()
> >   modpost: use bool type where appropriate
> >   modpost: import include/linux/list.h
> >   modpost: traverse modules in order
> >   modpost: add sym_add_unresolved() helper
> >   modpost: traverse unresolved symbols in order
> >   modpost: use doubly linked list for dump_lists
> >   modpost: move struct namespace_list to modpost.c
> >   modpost: traverse the namespace_list in order
> >   modpost: dump Module.symvers in the same order of modules.order
> >   modpost: move static EXPORT_SYMBOL check to check_exports()
> >   modpost: make multiple export error
> >   modpost: make sym_add_exported() always allocate a new symbol
> >   modpost: make sym_add_exported() a void function
> >   modpost: use hlist for hash table implementation
> >   modpost: mitigate false-negatives for static EXPORT_SYMBOL checks
> >   kbuild: record symbol versions in *.cmd files
> >   kbuild: generate a list of objects in vmlinux
> >   modpost: retrieve symbol versions by parsing *.cmd files
> >   modpost: generate linker script to collect symbol versions
> >   kbuild: embed symbol versions at final link of vmlinux or modules
> >   kbuild: stop generating *.symversions
> >   kbuild: do not create *.prelink.o for Clang LTO or IBT
> >
> >  .gitignore                |   1 +
> >  Makefile                  |   1 +
> >  scripts/Kbuild.include    |   4 +
> >  scripts/Makefile.build    | 107 ++------
> >  scripts/Makefile.lib      |   7 -
> >  scripts/Makefile.modfinal |   6 +-
> >  scripts/Makefile.modpost  |   9 +-
> >  scripts/link-vmlinux.sh   |  38 ++-
> >  scripts/mod/file2alias.c  |   2 -
> >  scripts/mod/list.h        | 336 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  scripts/mod/modpost.c     | 529 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >  scripts/mod/modpost.h     |  27 +-
> >  12 files changed, 731 insertions(+), 336 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 scripts/mod/list.h
> >
> > --
> > 2.32.0
>
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-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada




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