blackbird-op-linux/scripts/mod, branch master

kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y

2020-02-03T16:53:07+00:00

In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004. It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration. This commit renames like follows: always -> always-y hostprogs-y -> hostprogs So, scripts/Makefile will look like this: always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ... always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ... ... hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m) I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier. The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward compatibility for a while. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: assume STT_SPARC_REGISTER is defined

2020-01-15T15:26:22+00:00

Commit 8d5290149ee1 ("[SPARC]: Deal with glibc changing macro names in modpost.c") was more than 14 years ago. STT_SPARC_REGISTER is hopefully defined in elf.h of recent C libraries. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: David S. Miller

modpost: respect the previous export when 'exported twice' is warned

2019-11-23T06:46:42+00:00

When 'exported twice' is warned, let sym_add_exported() return without updating the symbol info. This respects the previous export, which is ordered first in modules.order This simplifies the code too. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: do not set ->preloaded for symbols from Module.symvers

2019-11-23T06:46:42+00:00

Now that there is no overwrap between symbols from ELF files and ones from Module.symvers. So, the 'exported twice' warning should be reported irrespective of where the symbol in question came from. The exceptional case is external module; in some cases, we build an external module to provide a different version/variant of the corresponding in-kernel module, overriding the same set of exported symbols. You can see this use-case in upstream; tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko replaces drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko in order to link it against mocked version of core kernel symbols. So, let's relax the 'exported twice' warning when building external modules. The multiple export from external modules is warned only when the previous one is from vmlinux or itself. With this refactoring, the ugly preloading goes away. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: stop symbol preloading for modversion CRC

2019-11-23T06:46:38+00:00

It is complicated to add mocked-up symbols for pre-handling CRC. Handle CRC after all the export symbols in the relevant module are registered. Call handle_modversion() after the handle_symbol() iteration. In some cases, I see atand-alone __crc_* without __ksymtab_*. For example, ARCH=arm allyesconfig produces __crc_ccitt_veneer and __crc_itu_t_veneer. I guess they come from crc_ccitt, crc_itu_t, respectively. Since __*_veneer are auto-generated symbols, just ignore them. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: rename handle_modversions() to handle_symbol()

2019-11-23T03:44:24+00:00

This function handles not only modversions, but also unresolved symbols, export symbols, etc. Rename it to a more proper function name. While I was here, I also added the 'const' qualifier to *sym. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: refactor namespace_from_kstrtabns() to not hard-code section name

2019-11-23T03:44:24+00:00

Currently, namespace_from_kstrtabns() relies on the fact that namespace strings are recorded in the __ksymtab_strings section. Actually, it is coded in include/linux/export.h, but modpost does not need to hard-code the section name. Elf_Sym::st_shndx holds the index of the relevant section. Using it is a more portable way to get the namespace string. Make namespace_from_kstrtabns() simply call sym_get_data(), and delete the info->ksymtab_strings . While I was here, I added more 'const' qualifiers to pointers. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: add a helper to get data pointed by a symbol

2019-11-23T03:44:24+00:00

When CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is enabled, the value of __crc_* is not an absolute value, but the address to the CRC data embedded in the .rodata section. Getting the data pointed by the symbol value is somewhat complex. Split it out into a new helper, sym_get_data(). I will reuse it to refactor namespace_from_kstrtabns() in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: remove unneeded local variable in contains_namespace()

2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00

The local variable, ns_entry, is unneeded. While I was here, I also cleaned up the comparison with NULL or 0. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich

modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file

2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00

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: : 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 Tested-by: Jessica Yu Acked-by: Jessica Yu Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich Tested-by: Matthias Maennich