27 Feb, 2020
2 commits
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In order to prepare the ground for a build-time optimization, split
adjust_autoksyms.sh into two scripts: one that generates autoksyms.h
based on all currently available information (whitelist, and .mod
files), and the other to inspect the diff between two versions of
autoksyms.h and trigger appropriate rebuilds.Bug: 148277666
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200218094139.78835-3-qperret@google.com
Change-Id: I7ed4f8f72c0ef9ac98419877efb5ef828d10b0d7 -
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS currently removes all unused exported symbols
from ksymtab. This works really well when using in-tree drivers, but
cannot be used in its current form if some of them are out-of-tree.Indeed, even if the list of symbols required by out-of-tree drivers is
known at compile time, the only solution today to guarantee these don't
get trimmed is to set CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=n. This not only wastes
space, but also makes it difficult to control the ABI usable by vendor
modules in distribution kernels such as Android. Being able to control
the kernel ABI surface is particularly useful to ship a unique Generic
Kernel Image (GKI) for all vendors, which is a first step in the
direction of getting all vendors to contribute their code upstream.As such, attempt to improve the situation by enabling users to specify a
symbol 'whitelist' at compile time. Any symbol specified in this
whitelist will be kept exported when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is set,
even if it has no in-tree user. The whitelist is defined as a simple
text file, listing symbols, one per line.Bug: 148277666
Acked-by: Jessica Yu
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200218094139.78835-2-qperret@google.com
Change-Id: Ie9a4bbb8eebb20202623f084859fb89e55a32698
18 Jul, 2019
2 commits
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The current format of *.mod is like this:
line 1: directory path to the .ko file
line 2: a list of objects linked into this module
line 3: unresolved symbols (only when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y)Now that *.mod and *.ko are created in the same directory, the line 1
provides no valuable information. It can be derived by replacing the
extension .mod with .ko. In fact, nobody uses the first line any more.Cut down the first line.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.Later, commit 551559e13af1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991
In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901c5 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.
Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre
19 Jun, 2019
1 commit
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundationthis program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation #extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
14 Mar, 2019
1 commit
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As commit 423a8155facf ("kbuild: Fix reading of .config in
link-vmlinux.sh") addressed, some shells fail to perform '.' if
${KCONFIG_CONFIG} does not contain a slash at all.Instead, we can source include/config/auto.conf, which obviously
contain slashes, and we do not expect its file path overridden by
a user. Perhaps, the performance might be slightly better since
unset CONFIG options are stripped from include/config/auto.conf.scripts/setlocalversion already works this way.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
17 May, 2018
1 commit
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CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX was selected by BLACKFIN, METAG.
They were removed by commit 4ba66a976072 ("arch: remove blackfin port"),
commit bb6fb6dfcc17 ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"), respectively.No more architecture enables CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
Clean up the rest of scripts, and remove the Kconfig entry.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg
04 Apr, 2018
1 commit
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- add a shell script to get Clang version
- improve portability of build scripts
- drop always-enabled CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVE and remove unused code
- rename built-in.o which is now thin archive to built-in.a
- process clean/build targets one by one to get along with -j option
- simplify ld-option
- improve building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
- define KBUILD_MODNAME even for objects shared among multiple modules
- avoid linking multiple instances of same objects from composite
objects- move to c_flags to include it only for C
files- clean-up various Makefiles
* tag 'kbuild-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
kbuild: get out of
kbuild: clean up link rule of composite modules
kbuild: clean up archive rule of built-in.a
kbuild: remove partial section mismatch detection for built-in.a
net: liquidio: clean up Makefile for simpler composite object handling
lib: zstd: clean up Makefile for simpler composite object handling
kbuild: link $(real-obj-y) instead of $(obj-y) into built-in.a
kbuild: rename real-objs-y/m to real-obj-y/m
kbuild: move modname and modname-multi close to modname_flags
kbuild: simplify modname calculation
kbuild: fix modname for composite modules
kbuild: define KBUILD_MODNAME even if multiple modules share objects
kbuild: remove unnecessary $(subst $(obj)/, , ...) in modname-multi
kbuild: Use ls(1) instead of stat(1) to obtain file size
kbuild: link vmlinux only once for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/*
kbuild: move CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS code unneeded for external module
kbuild: restore autoksyms.h touch to the top Makefile
kbuild: move 'scripts' target below
kbuild: remove wrong 'touch' in adjust_autoksyms.sh
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26 Mar, 2018
3 commits
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The idea of using fixdep was inspired by Kconfig, but autoksyms
belongs to a different group. So, I want to move those touched
files under include/config/ksym/ to include/ksym/.The directory include/ksym/ can be removed by 'make clean' because
it is meaningless for the external module building.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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The comment mentions it creates autoksyms.h in case it is missing,
but the actual code touches it when it does exists.The build system creates it anyway because and
need it.The code would not have worked as intended, and people have not
noticed it. This is a proof that we can simply remove it.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
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* Use BREs where EREs aren't necessary.
* Pass -E instead of -r to use EREs. This will be standardized in the
next POSIX revision[0]. GNU sed supports this since 4.2 (May 2009),
and busybox since 1.22.0 (Jan 2014).
* Use the [:space:] character class instead of ` \t` in bracket
expressions. In bracket expressions, POSIX says that loses
its special meaning, so a conforming implementation cannot expand \t
to [1].
* In BREs, use interval expressions (\{n,m\}) instead of non-standard
features like \+ and \?.
* Use a loop instead of -s flag.There are still plenty of other cases of non-standard sed invocations
(use of ERE features in BREs, in-place editing), but this fixes some
core ones.[0] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=528
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05Signed-off-by: Michael Forney
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
21 Mar, 2018
1 commit
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Some filesystems have timestamps with coarse precision that may allow
for a recently built object file to have the same timestamp as the
updated time on one of its dependency files. When that happens, the
object file doesn't get rebuilt as it should.This is especially the case on filesystems that don't have sub-second
time precision, such as ext3 or Ext4 with 128B inodes.Let's prevent that by making sure updated dependency files have a newer
timestamp than the first file we created (i.e. autoksyms.h.tmpnew).Reported-by: Thomas Lindroth
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Thomas Lindroth
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
12 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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When CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y and no modules are actually selected,
the adjust_autoksyms.sh script fails with:sed: can't read .tmp_versions/*.mod: No such file or directory
Let's cope with that case gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
10 May, 2016
1 commit
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When only one symbol was listed and therefore the line didn't contain
any space to separate multiple symbols, that symbol got ignored.Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
30 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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Given the list of exported symbols needed by all modules, we can create
a header file containing preprocessor defines for each of those symbols.
Also, when some symbols are added and/or removed from the list, we can
update the time on the corresponding files used as build dependencies for
those symbols. And finally, if any symbol did change state, the
corresponding source files must be rebuilt.The insertion or removal of an EXPORT_SYMBOL() entry within a module may
create or remove the need for another exported symbol. This is why this
operation has to be repeated until the list of needed exported symbols
becomes stable. Only then the final kernel and modules link take place.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Acked-by: Rusty Russell