linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] kmod /usr support

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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:05:11 -0500
From: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
CC: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>, <linux-modules@...r.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
	Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>, Jiri Slaby
	<jslaby@...e.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>, Nathan Chancellor
	<nathan@...nel.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, "Nicolas
 Schier" <nicolas@...sle.eu>, <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kmod /usr support

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 05:37:31PM GMT, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 3:37 AM Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 01:13:53PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >This is resend of the last patch in the series that adds prefix support
>> >to kernel module location together with additional patch for validating
>> >the user supplied input to options that are interpreted as directories.
>> >
>> >Thanks
>>
>> applied, thanks
>>
>> Lucas De Marchi
>
>
>
>If I understood this correctly, MODULE_DIRECTORY is determined
>by "configure --with-module-directory=...", and there is no
>way to change it after that.
>
>
>If so, how to work with cross-building?
>
>Cross-building is typical when building embedded Linux systems.

I was thinking the `pkg-config --variable=module_directory`
from the target would be sufficient, but... 

>
>
>Consider this scenario:
>
>- Your build machine adopts
>    MODULE_DIRECTORY=/usr/lib/modules
>- The target embedded system adopts
>    MODULE_DIRECTORY=/lib/modules
>
>(or vice a versa)
>depmod is used also for cross-building because
>it is executed as a part of "make module_install".
>
>
>The counterpart patch set for Kbuild provides
>KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY, which only changes
>the destination directory to which *.ko are copied.
>
>You cannot change the directory where the
>depmod searches for modules, as it is fixed
>at the compile-time of kmod.
>
>
>
>
>In this case, what we can do is to build another
>instance of kmod configured for the target system,

the target system may not even have depmod actually, so using just the
host one seems more appropriate. But target should have the kmod.pc for
the pkg-config call to work.

>and use it for modules_install:
>
>1. In the kmod source directory
>    ./configure --with=module-directory=/lib/modules
>    make
>
>2. make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=<staging-dir>
>     KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY=/lib/modules
>     DEPMOD=<new-depmod-you-has-just-built>
>
>
>
>If you use OpenEmbedded etc., this is what you do
>because host tools are built from sources.
>
>But, should it be required all the time?
>Even when the target embedded system uses
>busybox-based modprobe instead of kmod?

no, I don't think we can rely on depmod from the target.

>
>
>
>depmod provides --basedir option, which changes
>the prefix part, but there is no way to override
>the stem part, MODULE_DIRECTRY.
>
>In the review of the counter patch set,
>I am suggesting an option to override MODULE_DIRECTRY
>(let's say --moduledir) at least for depmod.

ok

>
>(Perhaps modinfo too, as it also supports --basedir)
>
>
>
>Then, we can change scripts/depmod.sh so that
>Kbuild can propagate KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY
>to depmod.
>
>
>if  <depmod supports --moduledir>; then
>    set -- "$@"  --moduledir "${KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY}"
>fi
>
>
>
>Does it make sense?

yep

thanks and sorry for missing this reply

Lucas De Marchi

>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Best Regards
>Masahiro Yamada