linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: get lib-y objects back to static library

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:08:16 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: get lib-y objects back to static library

Revert the following two commits:

 - 7273ad2b08f8 ("kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y")
 - 7f2084fa55e6 ("[kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably")

Now, lib-y is back to static library again, and the link order is
consistent w/wo CONFIG_MODULES.

Since commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by
modpost"), .vmlinux.export.c contains references to exported symbols.
If a symbol in a lib-y object is exported, that object is always linked
even without any explicit user in vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 Makefile | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 87a9eef3fb4b..71e9c65d9eae 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1113,12 +1113,7 @@ export ARCH_DRIVERS	:= $(drivers-y) $(drivers-m)
 # Externally visible symbols (used by link-vmlinux.sh)
 
 KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS := ./built-in.a
-ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS += $(patsubst %/, %/lib.a, $(filter %/, $(libs-y)))
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS := $(filter-out %/, $(libs-y))
-else
 KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS := $(patsubst %/,%/lib.a, $(libs-y))
-endif
 
 export KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
 export KBUILD_LDS          := arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/vmlinux.lds
-- 
2.39.2