Config MODULE_SCMVERSION introduces a new module attribute --
`scmversion` -- which can be used to identify a given module's SCM
version. This is very useful for developers that update their kernel
independently from their kernel modules or vice-versa since the SCM
version provided by UTS_RELEASE (`uname -r`) will now differ from the
module's vermagic attribute.
For example, we have a CI setup that tests new kernel changes on the
hikey960 and db845c devices without updating their kernel modules. When
these tests fail, we need to be able to identify the exact device
configuration the test was using. By including MODULE_SCMVERSION, we can
identify the exact kernel and modules' SCM versions for debugging the
failures.
Additionally, by exposing the SCM version via the sysfs node
/sys/module/MODULENAME/scmversion, one can also verify the SCM versions
of the modules loaded from the initramfs. Currently, modinfo can only
retrieve module attributes from the module's ko on disk and not from the
actual module that is loaded in RAM.
You can retrieve the SCM version in two ways,
1) By using modinfo:
> modinfo -F scmversion MODULENAME
2) By module sysfs node:
> cat /sys/module/MODULENAME/scmversion
Bug: 180027765
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210121213641.3477522-1-willmcvicker@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Change-Id: Ib7c72c72f95c4545adb7cd4e842729557039ce3a
Commit f73edc8951 ("kbuild: unify two modpost invocations") introduced
a typo (moudle.symvers-if-present) which results in the kernel's
Module.symvers to not be included as a prerequisite for
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers. Fix the typo to restore the intended
functionality.
Bug: 253726452
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Change-Id: Ib8d739744f0f3c925a031ad501535537e351f3bd
The modpost build phase was refactored upstream in commit f73edc8951
("kbuild: unify two modpost invocations"). The new implementation does
not generate a vmlinux.symvers which our existing mixed build
implementation depends upon to match the KMI between the modules and GKI
kernel (via depmod). Since the Module.symvers is equal to the
vmlinux.symvers + modules-only.symvers, this patch adds support to
generate the vmlinux.symvers in order to continue using the existing
mixed build implementation.
Just a couple of notes:
1) This allows us to use the same mixed build implementation for
android14-6.1 and android14-5.15 without making any build tooling
changes.
2) This implementation won't catch build-time vendor changes to GKI
Module CRCs during modpost. This is due to the fact that we are
only using the vmlinux.symvers from the GKI kernel pass and not
including the CRCs for the GKI modules.
Bug: 253726452
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Change-Id: I4b964434d02abbcdb694d3e03bfa4dc2d5a81f85
Steps on the way to 6.1-rc1
Resolves merge conflicts in:
Makefile
scripts/Makefile.modfinal
scripts/Makefile.modpost
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I8578b7f47932c7c57126531e5251daea07cc551e
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
The musl implementation of getopt stops looking for options after the
first non-option argument. Put the options before the non-option
argument so environments using musl can still build the kernel and
modules.
Fixes: f73edc8951 ("kbuild: unify two modpost invocations")
Link: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/misc/getopt.c?h=dc9285ad1dc19349c407072cc48ba70dab86de45#n44
Signed-off-by: Richard Acayan <mailingradian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The objects placed at the head of vmlinux need special treatments:
- arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile adds them to head-y in order to place
them before other archives in the linker command line.
- arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile adds them to extra-y instead of
obj-y to avoid them going into built-in.a.
This commit gets rid of the latter.
Create vmlinux.a to collect all the objects that are unconditionally
linked to vmlinux. The objects listed in head-y are moved to the head
of vmlinux.a by using 'ar m'.
With this, arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile can consistently use obj-y
for builtin objects.
There is no *.o that is directly linked to vmlinux. Drop unneeded code
in scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py.
$(AR) mPi needs 'T' to workaround the llvm-ar bug. The fix was suggested
by Nathan Chancellor [1].
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/YyjjT5gQ2hGMH0ni@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Modpost generates .vmlinux.export.c and *.mod.c, which are prerequisites
of vmlinux and modules, respectively.
The modpost stage should be re-run when the modpost code is updated.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Currently, modpost is executed twice; first for vmlinux, second
for modules.
This commit merges them.
Current build flow
==================
1) build obj-y and obj-m objects
2) link vmlinux.o
3) modpost for vmlinux
4) link vmlinux
5) modpost for modules
6) link modules (*.ko)
The build steps 1) through 6) are serialized, that is, modules are
built after vmlinux. You do not get benefits of parallel builds when
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh is being run.
New build flow
==============
1) build obj-y and obj-m objects
2) link vmlinux.o
3) modpost for vmlinux and modules
4a) link vmlinux
4b) link modules (*.ko)
In the new build flow, modpost is invoked just once.
vmlinux and modules are built in parallel. One exception is
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y, where modules depend on vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
.vmlinux.objs is used by modpost, so scripts/Makefile.modpost is
a better place to generate it.
It is used only when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. It should be guarded
by "ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Steps on the way to 5.19-rc1
Resolves merge conflicts in:
scripts/Makefile.modfinal
scripts/Makefile.modpost
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I720cb2f0a8460e087b7985ecbeec4b760eba52ca
This reverts the MODULE_SCMVERSION config addition as it causes lots of
merge problems with 5.19-rc1. It can be added back after 5.19-rc1 is
out if it is still needed.
Also, if it is still needed, perhaps it can be made a bit
less-intrusive to make it easier with future merges...
Bug: 180027765
Cc: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I42e4ccbc4d2291523fd8460d530528d0c19c3e70
When CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y, additional intermediate *.prelink.o is created
for each module. Also, objtool is postponed until LLVM IR is converted
to ELF.
CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT works in a similar way to postpone objtool until
objects are merged together.
This commit stops generating *.prelink.o, so the build flow will look
similar with/without LTO.
The following figures show how the LTO build currently works, and
how this commit is changing it.
Current build flow
==================
[1] single-object module
$(LD)
$(CC) +objtool $(LD)
foo.c --------------------> foo.o -----> foo.prelink.o -----> foo.ko
(LLVM IR) (ELF) | (ELF)
|
foo.mod.o --/
(LLVM IR)
[2] multi-object module
$(LD)
$(CC) $(AR) +objtool $(LD)
foo1.c -----> foo1.o -----> foo.o -----> foo.prelink.o -----> foo.ko
| (archive) (ELF) | (ELF)
foo2.c -----> foo2.o --/ |
(LLVM IR) foo.mod.o --/
(LLVM IR)
One confusion is that foo.o in multi-object module is an archive
despite of its suffix.
New build flow
==============
[1] single-object module
Since there is only one object, there is no need to keep the LLVM IR.
Use $(CC)+$(LD) to generate an ELF object in one build rule. When LTO
is disabled, $(LD) is unneeded because $(CC) produces an ELF object.
$(CC)+$(LD)+objtool $(LD)
foo.c ----------------------------> foo.o ---------> foo.ko
(ELF) | (ELF)
|
foo.mod.o --/
(LLVM IR)
[2] multi-object module
Previously, $(AR) was used to combine LLVM IR files into an archive,
but there was no technical reason to do so. Use $(LD) to merge them
into a single ELF object.
$(LD)
$(CC) +objtool $(LD)
foo1.c ---------> foo1.o ---------> foo.o ---------> foo.ko
| (ELF) | (ELF)
foo2.c ---------> foo2.o ----/ |
(LLVM IR) foo.mod.o --/
(LLVM IR)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Similar cleanup to commit 5c8166419a ("kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B)
with $(or A,B)").
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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 "$(OUT_DIR)" to
prevent compilation failure.
So the kernel should change the included path to avoid the copy operation.
Signed-off-by: Jing Leng <jleng@ambarella.com>
[masahiro: I do not think "M=$(OUT_DIR) src=$(PWD)" is the official way,
but this patch is a nice clean up anyway.]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Change comment "create one <module>.mod.c file pr. module"
to "create one <module>.mod.c file per module"
Signed-off-by: Ramji Jiyani <ramjiyani@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Steps on the way to 5.15-rc1
Fixed up merge conflicts in:
scripts/Makefile.modfinal
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I3a916b7267fc2e4ed2f2bd308b9cff8ca9430660
With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, we currently link modules into native
code just before modpost, which means with TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
enabled, we still look at the LLVM bitcode in the .o files when
generating the list of used symbols. As the bitcode doesn't
yet have calls to compiler intrinsics and llvm-nm doesn't see
function references that only exist in function-level inline
assembly, we currently need a whitelist for TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS to
work with LTO.
This change moves module LTO linking to happen earlier, and
thus avoids the issue with LLVM bitcode and TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
entirely, allowing us to also drop the whitelist from
gen_autoksyms.sh.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1369
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Tested-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
When building with KBUILD_MIXED_TREE, Modules.symvers will not be built
since vmlinux.symvers won't be in the normal build outputs. Fix this by
checking for the mixed-build-prefix in the Modules.symvers target.
Fixes: d0736af81151c ("kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists")
Signed-off-by: J. Avila <elavila@google.com>
Change-Id: Ic8dcc220cb7b93498629719aaccdb7b6fc38a6a1
Nathan reports that the mips defconfig emits the following warning:
WARNING: modpost: Symbol info of vmlinux is missing. Unresolved symbol check will be entirely skipped.
This false-positive happens when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled,
but no CONFIG option is set to 'm'.
Commit a0590473c5 ("nfs: fix PNFS_FLEXFILE_LAYOUT Kconfig default")
turned the last 'm' into 'y' for the mips defconfig, and uncovered
this issue.
In this case, the module feature itself is enabled, but we have no
module to build. As a result, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS drops all the
instances of EXPORT_SYMBOL. Then, modpost wrongly assumes vmlinux is
missing because vmlinux.symvers is empty. (As another false-positive
case, you can create a module that does not use any symbol of vmlinux).
The current behavior is to entirely suppress the unresolved symbol
warnings when vmlinux is missing just because there are too many.
I found the origin of this code in the historical git tree. [1]
If this is a matter of noisiness, I think modpost can display the
first 10 warnings, and the number of suppressed warnings at the end.
You will get a bit noisier logs when you run 'make modules' without
vmlinux, but such warnings are better to show because you never know
the resulting modules are actually loadable or not.
This commit changes the following:
- If any of input *.symver files is missing, pass -w option to let
the module build keep going with warnings instead of errors.
- If there are too many (10+) unresolved symbol warnings, show only
the first 10, and also the number of suppressed warnings.
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=1cc0e0529569bf6a94f6d49770aa6d4b599d2c46
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The -w option is meaningless for the first pass of modpost (vmlinux.o).
We know there are unresolved symbols in vmlinux.o, hence we skip
check_exports() and other checks when mod->is_vmlinux is set.
See the following part in the for-loop.
if (mod->is_vmlinux || mod->from_dump)
continue;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
is missing in the kernel tree.
WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.
I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
for external modules by 'make defconfig && make modules_preapre'.
A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
already exists in spite of its incomplete content.
The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.
This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.
Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
When KBUILD_MIXED_TREE points to the output folder of another kernel's
build output, Kbuild can compile a complete kernel tree's modules
against that other kernel tree's vmlinux. This is useful when two
kernel trees exist: a "Generic Kernel Image" tree and a "device kernel"
tree. Both trees are complete kernel source trees, and the "Generic
Kernel Image" should provide the kernel Image and device kernel tree
provides device driver modules.
To accomplish this, references to vmlinux.symvers in the device kernel
should point to the generic kernel's vmlinux.symvers and the device
kernel should skip compilation of built-in files.
Bug: 178469391
Change-Id: I614f3e87519236c4e2c5da74937cb0ecd98a278a
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
VPATH is used in Kbuild to make pattern rules search for prerequisites
in both $(objtree) and $(srctree). Some of *.c, *.S files are not real
sources, but generated by tools such as flex, bison, perl.
In contrast, I doubt the benefit of --include-dir=$(abs_srctree) because
it is always clear which Makefiles are real sources, and which are not.
So, my hope is to add $(srctree)/ prefix to all check-in Makefiles,
then remove --include-dir=$(abs_srctree) flag in the future.
I am touching only some Kbuild core parts for now. Treewide fixes will
be needed to achieve this goal.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Steps on the way to 5.12-rc1
Resolves conflicts in:
include/linux/module.h
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I44772d65a5d6b1c5f4c33905554092c2cdc5b210
Updates the documentation and comments for the MODULE_SCMVERSION feature.
Bug: 180027765
Fixes: 4b9c11a373 ("ANDROID: modules: introduce the MODULE_SCMVERSION config")
Change-Id: I648b31c4810c777ec3d2cb141b61f5924559c76f
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
If a relative path is used for EXT_MODULES and -O is defined, then we
need to set the module_srcpath as relative to $(srctree) vs $(objtree).
Refer to [1] for more details.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210120193100.3414664-1-masahiroy@kernel.org/
Bug: 180027765
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Change-Id: I17065f2dc7d5c3297f88500390a6f45aceea7229
Config MODULE_SCMVERSION introduces a new module attribute --
`scmversion` -- which can be used to identify a given module's SCM
version. This is very useful for developers that update their kernel
independently from their kernel modules or vice-versa since the SCM
version provided by UTS_RELEASE (`uname -r`) will now differ from the
module's vermagic attribute.
For example, we have a CI setup that tests new kernel changes on the
hikey960 and db845c devices without updating their kernel modules. When
these tests fail, we need to be able to identify the exact device
configuration the test was using. By including MODULE_SCMVERSION, we can
identify the exact kernel and modules' SCM versions for debugging the
failures.
Additionally, by exposing the SCM version via the sysfs node
/sys/module/MODULENAME/scmversion, one can also verify the SCM versions
of the modules loaded from the initramfs. Currently, modinfo can only
retrieve module attributes from the module's ko on disk and not from the
actual module that is loaded in RAM.
You can retrieve the SCM version in two ways,
1) By using modinfo:
> modinfo -F scmversion MODULENAME
2) By module sysfs node:
> cat /sys/module/MODULENAME/scmversion
Bug: 180027765
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/21/1388
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Change-Id: Ib7c72c72f95c4545adb7cd4e842729557039ce3a
With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, version information is linked into each
compilation unit that exports symbols. With LTO, we cannot use this
method as all C code is compiled into LLVM bitcode instead. This
change collects symbol versions into .symversions files and merges
them in link-vmlinux.sh where they are all linked into vmlinux.o at
the same time.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-4-samitolvanen@google.com
This change adds build system support for Clang's Link Time
Optimization (LTO). With -flto, instead of ELF object files, Clang
produces LLVM bitcode, which is compiled into native code at link
time, allowing the final binary to be optimized globally. For more
details, see:
https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html
The Kconfig option CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is implemented as a choice,
which defaults to LTO being disabled. To use LTO, the architecture
must select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG and support:
- compiling with Clang,
- compiling all assembly code with Clang's integrated assembler,
- and linking with LLD.
While using CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL results in the best runtime
performance, the compilation is not scalable in time or
memory. CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN enables ThinLTO, which allows
parallel optimization and faster incremental builds. ThinLTO is
used by default if the architecture also selects
ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html
To enable LTO, LLVM tools must be used to handle bitcode files, by
passing LLVM=1 and LLVM_IAS=1 options to make:
$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
$ scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
To prepare for LTO support with other compilers, common parts are
gated behind the CONFIG_LTO option, and LTO can be disabled for
specific files by filtering out CC_FLAGS_LTO.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-3-samitolvanen@google.com
The same code exists a few lines above.
Fixes: 436b2ac603 ("modpost: invoke modpost only when input files are updated")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The -s option was added by commit 8d8d8289df ("kbuild: do not do
section mismatch checks on vmlinux in 2nd pass").
Now that the second pass does not parse vmlinux, this option is
unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
If modpost fails to load a symbol dump file, it cannot check unresolved
symbols, hence module dependency will not be added. Nor CRCs can be added.
Currently, external module builds check only $(objtree)/Module.symvers,
but it should check files specified by KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS as well.
Move the warning message from the top Makefile to scripts/Makefile.modpost
and print the warning if any dump file is missing.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Currently, the second pass of modpost is always invoked when you run
'make' or 'make modules' even if none of modules is changed.
Use if_changed to invoke it only when it is necessary.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The full build runs modpost twice, first for vmlinux.o and second for
modules.
The first pass dumps all the vmlinux symbols into Module.symvers, but
the second pass parses vmlinux again instead of reusing the dump file,
presumably because it needs to avoid accumulating stale symbols.
Loading symbol info from a dump file is faster than parsing an ELF object.
Besides, modpost deals with various issues to parse vmlinux in the second
pass.
A solution is to make the first pass dumps symbols into a separate file,
vmlinux.symvers. The second pass reads it, and parses module .o files.
The merged symbol information is dumped into Module.symvers in the same
way as before.
This makes further modpost cleanups possible.
Also, it fixes the problem of 'make vmlinux', which previously overwrote
Module.symvers, throwing away module symbols.
I slightly touched scripts/link-vmlinux.sh so that vmlinux is re-linked
when you cross this commit. Otherwise, vmlinux.symvers would not be
generated.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Previously, the -i option had two functions; load a symbol dump file,
and set the external_module flag.
I want to assign a dedicate option for each of them.
Going forward, the -i is used to load a symbol dump file, and the -e
to set the external_module flag.
With this, we will be able to use -i for loading in-kernel symbols.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Now that there is no difference between -i and -e, they can be unified.
Make modpost accept the -i option multiple times, then remove -e.
I will reuse -e for a different purpose.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The built-in only code is not required to have MODULE_IMPORT_NS() to
use symbols. So, the namespace is not checked for vmlinux(.o).
Do not pass the meaningless -N option to the first pass of modpost.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The '-T -' option reads the file list from stdin.
It is clearer to put it close to the piped command.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
$(filter -i,$(MAKEFLAGS)) works only in limited use-cases.
The representation of $(MAKEFLAGS) depends on various factors:
- GNU Make version (version 3.8x or version 4.x)
- The presence of other flags like -j
In my experiments, $(MAKEFLAGS) is expanded as follows:
* GNU Make 3.8x:
* without -j option:
--no-print-directory -Rri
* with -j option:
--no-print-directory -Rr --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j -i
* GNU Make 4.x:
* without -j option:
irR --no-print-directory
* with -j option:
irR -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 --no-print-directory
For GNU Make 4.x, the flags are grouped as 'irR', which does not work.
For the single thread build with GNU Make 3.8x, the flags are grouped
as '-Rri', which does not work either.
To make it work for all cases, do likewise as commit 6f0fa58e45
("kbuild: simplify silent build (-s) detection").
BTW, since commit ff9b45c55b ("kbuild: modpost: read modules.order
instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod"), you also need to pass -k option to
build final *.ko files. 'make -i -k' ignores compile errors in modules,
and build as many remaining *.ko as possible.
Please note this feature is kind of dangerous if other modules depend
on the broken module because the generated modules will lack the correct
module dependency or CRC. Honestly, I am not a big fan of it, but I am
keeping this feature.
Fixes: eed380f3f5 ("modpost: Optionally ignore secondary errors seen if a single module build fails")
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
$(firstword ...) in scripts/Makefile.modpost was added by commit
3f3fd3c055 ("[PATCH] kbuild: allow multi-word $M in Makefile.modpost")
to build multiple external module directories.
It was a solution to resolve symbol dependencies when an external
module depends on another external module.
Commit 0d96fb20b7 ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced another solution by passing symbol
info via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, then broke the multi-word M= support.
include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile)
... does not work if KBUILD_EXTMOD contains multiple words.
This feature has been broken for more than a decade. Remove the
bitrotten code, and stop parsing if M or KBUILD_EXTMOD contains
multiple words.
As Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst explains, if your module depends
on another one, there are two solutions:
- add a common top-level Kbuild file
- use KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Currently when CONFIG_MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS=n, modpost
only warns when a module is missing namespace imports. Under this
configuration, such a module cannot be loaded into the kernel anyway, as
the module loader would reject it. We might as well return a build
error when a module is missing namespace imports under
CONFIG_MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS=n, so that the build
warning does not go ignored/unnoticed.
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
scripts/nsdeps is written to take care of only in-tree modules.
Perhaps, this is not a bug, but just a design. At least,
Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst focuses on in-tree modules.
Having said that, some people already tried nsdeps for external modules.
So, it would be nice to support it.
Reported-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
The modpost, with the -d option given, generates per-module .ns_deps
files.
Kbuild generates per-module .mod files to carry module information.
This is convenient because Make handles multiple jobs in parallel
when the -j option is given.
On the other hand, the modpost always runs as a single thread.
I do not see a strong reason to produce separate .ns_deps files.
This commit changes the modpost to generate just one file,
modules.nsdeps, each line of which has the following format:
<module_name>: <list of missing namespaces>
Please note it contains *missing* namespaces instead of required ones.
So, modules.nsdeps is empty if the namespace dependency is all good.
This will work more efficiently because spatch will no longer process
already imported namespaces. I removed the '(if needed)' from the
nsdeps log since spatch is invoked only when needed.
This also solves the stale .ns_deps problem reported by Jessica Yu:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/28/467
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
