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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-05-13 20:39:22 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-05-24 16:33:20 +0900
commit7b4537199a4a8480b8c3ba37a2d44765ce76cd9b (patch)
tree0690afa62208ca15fd36069afcbdac85908d0676 /arch/powerpc
parentf292d875d0dc700b3af0bef04c5abc1dc7b3b62c (diff)
kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS
include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_* as a placeholder. Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset to the reference of CRC. It is time to get rid of this complexity. Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs, it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules. Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before, *.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal. No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not. CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed. Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in objects, but this step is unneeded too. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 174edabb74fa..a4e8dd889e29 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -566,7 +566,6 @@ config RELOCATABLE
bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
depends on PPC64 || (FLATMEM && (44x || FSL_BOOKE))
select NONSTATIC_KERNEL
- select MODULE_REL_CRCS if MODVERSIONS
help
This builds a kernel image that is capable of running at the
location the kernel is loaded at. For ppc32, there is no any