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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/Makefile.modpost | 14 |
3 files changed, 32 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 385a5ef41c17..9b9c4797fc55 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. --- 6.8 Custom kbuild commands --- 6.9 Preprocessing linker scripts --- 6.10 Generic header files + --- 6.11 Post-link pass === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers --- 7.1 header-y @@ -1237,6 +1238,21 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): to list the file in the Kbuild file. See "7.4 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc. +--- 6.11 Post-link pass + + If the file arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink exists, this makefile + will be invoked for post-link objects (vmlinux and modules.ko) + for architectures to run post-link passes on. Must also handle + the clean target. + + This pass runs after kallsyms generation. If the architecture + needs to modify symbol locations, rather than manipulate the + kallsyms, it may be easier to add another postlink target for + .tmp_vmlinux? targets to be called from link-vmlinux.sh. + + For example, powerpc uses this to check relocation sanity of + the linked vmlinux file. + === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers The kernel includes a set of headers that is exported to userspace. @@ -957,9 +957,12 @@ endif include/generated/autoksyms.h: FORCE $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh true -# Final link of vmlinux - cmd_link-vmlinux = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux) -quiet_cmd_link-vmlinux = LINK $@ +ARCH_POSTLINK := $(wildcard $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.postlink) + +# Final link of vmlinux with optional arch pass after final link + cmd_link-vmlinux = \ + $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux) ; \ + $(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true) vmlinux: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh vmlinux_prereq $(vmlinux-deps) FORCE +$(call if_changed,link-vmlinux) @@ -1286,6 +1289,7 @@ $(clean-dirs): vmlinuxclean: $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean + $(Q)$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) clean) clean: archclean vmlinuxclean diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost index 1366a94b6c39..16923ba4b5b1 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost @@ -115,14 +115,18 @@ $(modules:.ko=.mod.o): %.mod.o: %.mod.c FORCE targets += $(modules:.ko=.mod.o) -# Step 6), final link of the modules +ARCH_POSTLINK := $(wildcard $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.postlink) + +# Step 6), final link of the modules with optional arch pass after final link quiet_cmd_ld_ko_o = LD [M] $@ - cmd_ld_ko_o = $(LD) -r $(LDFLAGS) \ - $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) \ - -o $@ $(filter-out FORCE,$^) + cmd_ld_ko_o = \ + $(LD) -r $(LDFLAGS) \ + $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) \ + -o $@ $(filter-out FORCE,$^) ; \ + $(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true) $(modules): %.ko :%.o %.mod.o FORCE - $(call if_changed,ld_ko_o) + +$(call if_changed,ld_ko_o) targets += $(modules) |