linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod

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Message-ID: <230d2ca1-19cd-b60e-1b1b-6d7413eea9e2@siemens.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:39:13 +0200
From:   Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of
 $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod

On 17.07.19 08:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Towards the goal of removing MODVERDIR, read out modules.order to get
> the list of modules to be processed. This is simpler than parsing *.mod
> files in $(MODVERDIR).
> 
> For external modules, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/modules.order should be read.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v3:
>   - Add ifdef CONFIG_MODULES to avoid warning
> 
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  scripts/Makefile.modpost | 15 +++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
> index fec6ec2ffa47..5841508ffca9 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
> @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
>  # b) A <module>.o file which is the .o files above linked together
>  # c) A <module>.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)/, listing the name of the
>  #    the preliminary <module>.o file, plus all .o files
> +# d) modules.order, which lists all the modules
>  
>  # Stage 2 is handled by this file and does the following
> -# 1) Find all modules from the files listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
> +# 1) Find all modules listed in modules.order
>  # 2) modpost is then used to
>  # 3)  create one <module>.mod.c file pr. module
>  # 4)  create one Module.symvers file with CRC for all exported symbols
> @@ -60,10 +61,12 @@ include scripts/Makefile.lib
>  kernelsymfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
>  modulesymfile := $(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/Module.symvers
>  
> -# Step 1), find all modules listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
> -MODLISTCMD := find $(MODVERDIR) -name '*.mod' | xargs -r grep -h '\.ko$$' | sort -u
> -__modules := $(shell $(MODLISTCMD))
> -modules   := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko, $(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
> +modorder := $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/)modules.order
> +
> +# Step 1), find all modules listed in modules.order
> +ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> +modules := $(sort $(shell cat $(modorder)))
> +endif
>  
>  # Stop after building .o files if NOFINAL is set. Makes compile tests quicker
>  _modpost: $(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL), $(modules:.ko:.o),$(modules))
> @@ -84,7 +87,7 @@ MODPOST_OPT=$(subst -i,-n,$(filter -i,$(MAKEFLAGS)))
>  
>  # We can go over command line length here, so be careful.
>  quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $(words $(filter-out vmlinux FORCE, $^)) modules
> -      cmd_modpost = $(MODLISTCMD) | sed 's/\.ko$$/.o/' | $(modpost) $(MODPOST_OPT) -s -T -
> +      cmd_modpost = sed 's/ko$$/o/' $(modorder) | $(modpost) $(MODPOST_OPT) -s -T -
>  
>  PHONY += __modpost
>  __modpost: $(modules:.ko=.o) FORCE
> 

This affects also external modules builds: I have patterns here that do

[Makefile]
subdir-y := some-module

[some-module/Makefile]
obj-m := some-module.o

and since this patch, the final some-module.ko is no longer built. Am I missing
something in the kbuild makefiles, or is this a regression?

Jan

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