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kbuild: unify two modpost invocations

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Currently, modpost is executed twice; first for vmlinux, second
for modules.

This commit merges them.

Current build flow
==================

  1) build obj-y and obj-m objects
    2) link vmlinux.o
      3) modpost for vmlinux
        4) link vmlinux
          5) modpost for modules
            6) link modules (*.ko)

The build steps 1) through 6) are serialized, that is, modules are
built after vmlinux. You do not get benefits of parallel builds when
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh is being run.

New build flow
==============

  1) build obj-y and obj-m objects
    2) link vmlinux.o
      3) modpost for vmlinux and modules
        4a) link vmlinux
        4b) link modules (*.ko)

In the new build flow, modpost is invoked just once.

vmlinux and modules are built in parallel. One exception is
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y, where modules depend on vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
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Masahiro Yamada
2022-09-25 03:19:13 +09:00
parent 9c5a0ac3c3
commit f73edc8951
4 changed files with 54 additions and 76 deletions
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@@ -214,9 +214,6 @@ if [ "$1" = "clean" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# modpost vmlinux.o to check for section mismatches
${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.modpost" MODPOST_VMLINUX=1
info MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo
${OBJCOPY} -j .modinfo -O binary vmlinux.o modules.builtin.modinfo
info GEN modules.builtin