This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kbuild: export top-level LDFLAGS_vmlinux only to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kbuild-export-top-level-ldflags_vmlinux-only-to-scri.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 42e54901df43fb15affd1fcc977655b76fa87a3e
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jan 9 04:23:17 2023 +0900
kbuild: export top-level LDFLAGS_vmlinux only to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
[ Upstream commit 8debed3efe3a731451ad9a91a7a74eeb18a7f7eb ]
Nathan Chancellor reports that $(NM) emits an error message when
GNU Make 4.4 is used to build the ARM zImage.
$ make-4.4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- O=build defconfig zImage
[snip]
LD vmlinux
NM System.map
SORTTAB vmlinux
OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image
Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
arm-linux-gnueabi-nm: 'arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../vmlinux': No such file
/bin/sh: 1: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " "
LDS arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds
AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o
GZIP arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy_data
AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.o
CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o
This occurs since GNU Make commit 98da874c4303 ("[SV 10593] Export
variables to $(shell ...) commands"), and the O= option is needed to
reproduce it. The generated zImage is correct despite the error message.
As the commit description of 98da874c4303 [1] says, exported variables
are passed down to $(shell ) functions, which means exported recursive
variables might be expanded earlier than before, in the parse stage.
The following test code demonstrates the change for GNU Make 4.4.
[Test Makefile]
$(shell echo hello > foo)
export foo = $(shell cat bar/../foo)
$(shell mkdir bar)
all:
@echo $(foo)
[GNU Make 4.3]
$ rm -rf bar; make-4.3
hello
[GNU Make 4.4]
$ rm -rf bar; make-4.4
cat: bar/../foo: No such file or directory
hello
The 'foo' is a resursively expanded (i.e. lazily expanded) variable.
GNU Make 4.3 expands 'foo' just before running the recipe '@echo $(foo)',
at this point, the directory 'bar' exists.
GNU Make 4.4 expands 'foo' to evaluate $(shell mkdir bar) because it is
exported. At this point, the directory 'bar' does not exit yet. The cat
command cannot resolve the bar/../foo path, hence the error message.
Let's get back to the kernel Makefile.
In arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile, KBSS_SZ is referenced by
LDFLAGS_vmlinux, which is recursive and also exported by the top
Makefile.
GNU Make 4.3 expands KBSS_SZ just before running the recipes, so no
error message.
GNU Make 4.4 expands KBSS_SZ in the parse stage, where the directory
arm/arm/boot/compressed does not exit yet. When compiled with O=,
the output directory is created by $(shell mkdir -p $(obj-dirs))
in scripts/Makefile.build.
There are two ways to fix this particular issue:
- change "$(obj)/../../../../vmlinux" in KBSS_SZ to "vmlinux"
- unexport LDFLAGS_vmlinux
This commit takes the latter course because it is what I originally
intended.
Commit 3ec8a5b33dea ("kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux")
unexported LDFLAGS_vmlinux.
Commit 5d4aeffbf709 ("kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its
prerequisite is updated") accidentally exported it again.
We can clean up arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile later.
[1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=98da874c43035a490cdca81331724f233a3d0c9a
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y7i8+EjwdnhHtlrr@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Fixes: 5d4aeffbf709 ("kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updated")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 49261450039a..770e509d4da4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ LDFLAGS_MODULE =
CFLAGS_KERNEL =
RUSTFLAGS_KERNEL =
AFLAGS_KERNEL =
-export LDFLAGS_vmlinux =
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux =
# Use USERINCLUDE when you must reference the UAPI directories only.
USERINCLUDE := \
@@ -1232,6 +1232,18 @@ vmlinux.o modules.builtin.modinfo modules.builtin: vmlinux_o
@:
PHONY += vmlinux
+# LDFLAGS_vmlinux in the top Makefile defines linker flags for the top vmlinux,
+# not for decompressors. LDFLAGS_vmlinux in arch/*/boot/compressed/Makefile is
+# unrelated; the decompressors just happen to have the same base name,
+# arch/*/boot/compressed/vmlinux.
+# Export LDFLAGS_vmlinux only to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux.
+#
+# _LDFLAGS_vmlinux is a workaround for the 'private export' bug:
+# https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61463
+# For Make > 4.4, the following simple code will work:
+# vmlinux: private export LDFLAGS_vmlinux := $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux)
+vmlinux: private _LDFLAGS_vmlinux := $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux)
+vmlinux: export LDFLAGS_vmlinux = $(_LDFLAGS_vmlinux)
vmlinux: vmlinux.o $(KBUILD_LDS) modpost
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
