linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: fix CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED

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Message-Id: <20210211061416.3747231-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:14:16 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: fix CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS build for ppc64

Stephen Rothwell reported a build error on ppc64 when
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled.

Jessica Yu pointed out the cause of the error with the reference to the
ppc64 elf ABI:
  "Symbol names with a dot (.) prefix are reserved for holding entry
   point addresses. The value of a symbol named ".FN", if it exists,
   is the entry point of the function "FN".

As it turned out, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS has never worked for ppc64,
which has been unnoticed until recently because this option depends on
!UNUSED_SYMBOLS hence is disabled by all{mod,yes}config. (Then, it was
uncovered by another patch removing UNUSED_SYMBOLS.)

Removing the dot prefix in scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh fixes the issue.
Please note it must be done before 'sort -u', because modules have
both ._mcount and _mcount undefined when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210209210843.3af66662@canb.auug.org.au/
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh b/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
index 16c0b2ddaa4c..d54dfba15bf2 100755
--- a/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ EOT
 sed 's/ko$/mod/' $modlist |
 xargs -n1 sed -n -e '2{s/ /\n/g;/^$/!p;}' -- |
 cat - "$ksym_wl" |
+# Remove the dot prefix for ppc64; symbol names with a dot (.) hold entry
+# point addresses.
+sed -e 's/^\.//' |
 sort -u |
 sed -e 's/\(.*\)/#define __KSYM_\1 1/' >> "$output_file"

-- 
2.27.0