Re: External modules with O=... (was: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix include path in scripts/Makefile.modpost)

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 09:43:14PM GMT, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 09:10:09AM GMT, Jing Leng wrote:
-----Original Messages-----
From: "Lucas De Marchi" <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx>
Send time:Tuesday, 09/10/2024 22:00:29
To: "Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 3090101217@xxxxxxxxxx, "Michal Marek" <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Nick
Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux Kbuild mailing list" <linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jing Leng" <jleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: External modules with O=... (was: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix include path in scripts/Makefile.modpost)

Hi, I was pointed to this thread since I'm trying something similar
in kmod's testsuite. See below.

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 02:52:45AM GMT, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 7:51 PM <3090101217@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jing Leng <jleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When building an external module, if users don't need to separate the
compilation output and source code, they run the following command:
"make -C $(LINUX_SRC_DIR) M=$(PWD)". At this point, "$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)"
and "$(src)" are the same.

If they need to separate them, they run "make -C $(KERNEL_SRC_DIR)
O=$(KERNEL_OUT_DIR) M=$(OUT_DIR) src=$(PWD)". Before running the
command, they need to copy "Kbuild" or "Makefile" to "$(OUT_DIR)" to
prevent compilation failure.

So the kernel should change the included path to avoid the copy operation.

Signed-off-by: Jing Leng <jleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/Makefile.modpost | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 48585c4d04ad..0273bf7375e2 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ obj := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)
 src := $(obj)

 # Include the module's Makefile to find KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
-include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
-             $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile)
+include $(if $(wildcard $(src)/Kbuild), $(src)/Kbuild, $(src)/Makefile)

 # modpost option for external modules
 MODPOST += -e
--
2.17.1



I do not think "M=$(OUT_DIR) src=$(PWD)" is the official way,
but this patch is a clean up.

I tried what is in this patch and also tried to find an official way in
the docs.

In kmod's testsuite we build dummy kernel modules to exercise the API.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/testsuite/module-playground

This works:
	make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$PWD

This doesn't:
	make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$PWD O=/tmp/kmod_test_modules

I also tried the variants above with setting src, but all of them give
me errors - I used 6.10 and 6.11-rc7 for these tests.

Is there a way to do this?

thanks
Lucas De Marchi


Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

Hi Masahiro,

I guess you meant Lucas :)


I think your intention is to separate the source code from the compiled output.
The correct command should be:
  make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build src=$PWD M=/tmp/kmod_test_modules

oh, looks like this works. Apparently my mistake was trying to set O=
like I normally do for in-tree modules.

spoke too early... It worked because I was in another machine pointing
to a 6.8 kernel. It seems like something broke between 6.9 and 6.10.

Running a quick bisect, it's pointing to this commit:
9a0ebe5011f4 ("kbuild: use $(obj)/ instead of $(src)/ for common pattern rules")

Error like below:

$ make -j$(nproc) -C ~/p/linux-dim/src MddPWD/build srcx=$PWD
make: Entering directory '/home/ldmartin/p/linux-dim/src'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/home/ldmartin/p/kmod/testsuite/module-playground/build/mod-simple.o', needed by '/home/ldmartin/p/kmod/testsuite/module-playground/build/'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [/home/ldmartin/p/linux-dim/src/Makefile:1922: /home/ldmartin/p/kmod/testsuite/module-playground/build] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/home/ldmartin/p/linux-dim/src'

Lucas De Marchi


Thanks
Lucas De Marchi


You also can refer to:
  https://github.com/lengjingzju/cbuild-ng/blob/main/scripts/core/inc.mod.mk
1. The complete command is as follows:
  make -C <Linux kernel source code directory> O=<Linux kernel compilation output directory> src=<Current driver module source code directory> M=<Current driver module compilation output directory>
2. If the <Linux kernel source code directory> and the <Linux kernel compilation output directory> are the same, <O=xxx> can be omitted:
  make -C <Linux kernel source code directory> src=<Current driver module source code directory> M=<Current driver module compilation output directory>
2. If the <Current driver module source code directory> and the <Current driver module compilation output directory> are the same, <src=xxx> can be omitted:
  make -C <Linux kernel source code directory> O=<Linux kernel compilation output directory> M=<Current driver module source code directory>

Best Regards!
Jing Leng




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