linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: preprocess module linker script

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Date:   Tue, 8 Sep 2020 08:59:48 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
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        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: preprocess module linker script

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 6:29 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we
> do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512)
>
> The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter
> is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by
> 'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created
> by 'make modules_prepare'.
>
> You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by
> 'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to
> arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from
> scripts/module.lds.S.
>
> scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the
> build artifacts under scripts/.
>
> You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

>  arch/m68k/Makefile                                     |  1 -
>  .../{kernel/module.lds => include/asm/module.lds.h}    |  0

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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