linux/scripts/Makefile.build, branch v5.8

kbuild: update modules.order only when contained modules are updated

2020-06-03T04:22:17Z

Make modules.order depend on $(obj-m), and use if_changed to build it. This will avoid unneeded update of modules.order, which will be useful to optimize the modpost stage. Currently, the second pass of modpost is always invoked. By checking the timestamp of modules.order, we can avoid the unneeded modpost. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: refactor tagets caluculation for KBUILD_{BUILTIN,KBUILD_MODULES}

2020-06-01T12:50:46Z

Remove lib-target, builtin-target, modorder-target, and modtargets. Instead, add targets-for-builtin and targets-for-modules. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: make modules.order rule consistent with built-in.a

2020-05-25T15:03:16Z

built-in.a contains the built-in object paths from the current and sub directories. module.order collects the module paths from the current and sub directories. Make their build rules look more symmetrical. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: rename subdir-obj-y to subdir-builtin

2020-05-25T15:03:16Z

I think subdir-builtin is clearer. While I was here, I made its build rule explicit. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: move subdir-obj-y to scripts/Makefile.build

2020-05-25T15:03:16Z

Save $(addprefix ...) for subdir-obj-y. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: clear KBUILD_MODULES in top Makefile if CONFIG_MODULES=n

2020-05-25T15:03:16Z

Do not try to build any module-related artifacts when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: remove ifdef builtin-target / lib-target

2020-05-25T15:03:16Z

I do not see a good reason to add ifdef here. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: add infrastructure to build userspace programs

2020-05-17T09:52:01Z

Kbuild supports the infrastructure to build host programs, but there was no support to build userspace programs for the target architecture (i.e. the same architecture as the kernel). Sam Ravnborg worked on this in 2014 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/13/154), but it was not merged. One problem at that time was, there was no good way to know whether $(CC) can link standalone programs. In fact, pre-built kernel.org toolchains [1] are often used for building the kernel, but they do not provide libc. Now, we can handle this cleanly because the compiler capability is evaluated at the Kconfig time. If $(CC) cannot link standalone programs, the relevant options are hidden by 'depends on CC_CAN_LINK'. The implementation just mimics scripts/Makefile.host The userspace programs are compiled with the same flags as the host programs. In addition, it uses -m32 or -m64 if it is found in $(KBUILD_CFLAGS). This new syntax has two usecases. - Sample programs Several userspace programs under samples/ include UAPI headers installed in usr/include. Most of them were previously built for the host architecture just to use the 'hostprogs' syntax. However, 'make headers' always works for the target architecture. This caused the arch mismatch in cross-compiling. To fix this distortion, sample code should be built for the target architecture. - Bpfilter net/bpfilter/Makefile compiles bpfilter_umh as the user mode helper, and embeds it into the kernel. Currently, it overrides HOSTCC with CC to use the 'hostprogs' syntax. This hack should go away. [1]: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y

2020-04-08T15:13:45Z

Kbuild supports not only obj-y but also lib-y to list objects linked to vmlinux. The difference between them is that all the objects from obj-y are forcibly linked to vmlinux, whereas the objects from lib-y are linked as needed; if there is no user of a lib-y object, it is not linked. lib-y is intended to list utility functions that may be called from all over the place (and may be unused at all), but it is a problem for EXPORT_SYMBOL(). Even if there is no call-site in the vmlinux, we need to keep exported symbols for the use from loadable modules. Commit 7f2084fa55e6 ("[kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably") worked around it by linking a dummy object, lib-ksyms.o, which contains references to all the symbols exported from lib.a in that directory. It uses the linker script command, EXTERN. Unfortunately, the meaning of EXTERN of ld.lld is different from that of ld.bfd. Therefore, this does not work with LD=ld.lld (CBL issue #515). Anyway, the build rule of lib-ksyms.o is somewhat tricky. So, I want to get rid of it. At first, I was thinking of accumulating lib-y objects into obj-y (or even replacing lib-y with obj-y entirely), but the lib-y syntax is used beyond the ordinary use in lib/ and arch/*/lib/. Examples: - drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile builds lib.a, which is linked into vmlinux in the own way (arm64), or linked to the decompressor (arm, x86). - arch/alpha/lib/Makefile builds lib.a which is linked not only to vmlinux, but also to bootloaders in arch/alpha/boot/Makefile. - arch/xtensa/boot/lib/Makefile builds lib.a for use from arch/xtensa/boot/boot-redboot/Makefile. One more thing, adding everything to obj-y would increase the vmlinux size of allnoconfig (or tinyconfig). For less impact, I tweaked the destination of lib.a at the top Makefile; when CONFIG_MODULES=y, lib.a goes to KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS, which is forcibly linked to vmlinux, otherwise lib.a goes to KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS as before. The size impact for normal usecases is quite small since at lease one symbol in every lib-y object is eventually called by someone. In case you are intrested, here are the figures. x86_64_defconfig: text data bss dec hex filename 19566602 5422072 1589328 26578002 1958c52 vmlinux.before 19566932 5422104 1589328 26578364 1958dbc vmlinux.after The case with the biggest impact is allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y. ARCH=x86 allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y: text data bss dec hex filename 1175162 254740 1220608 2650510 28718e vmlinux.before 1177974 254836 1220608 2653418 287cea vmlinux.after Hopefully this is still not a big deal. The per-file trimming with the static library is not so effective after all. If fine-grained optimization is desired, some architectures support CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which trims dead code per-symbol basis. When LTO is supported in mainline, even better optimization will be possible. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/515 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reported-by: kbuild test robot Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers

gcc-plugins: drop support for GCC <= 4.7

2020-04-08T15:13:45Z

Nobody was opposed to raising minimum GCC version to 4.8 [1] So, we will drop GCC <= 4.7 support sooner or later. We always use C++ compiler for building plugins for GCC >= 4.8. This commit drops the plugin support for GCC <= 4.7 a bit earlier, which allows us to dump lots of code. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/545 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Kees Cook