kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
authorAlexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:05:52 +0000 (10:05 +0200)
committerNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:10:45 +0000 (09:10 -0700)
Since .vmlinux.export.c is used to add generated by modpost modaliases
for builtin modules the .vmlinux.export.o is no longer optional and
should always be created. The generation of this file is not dependent
on CONFIG_MODULES.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0e63a9c7741fe8217e4fd7c60afcf057ffa2ef5a.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

index 1e5e37a..7c6ae98 100644 (file)
@@ -53,11 +53,6 @@ endif
 # vmlinux.unstripped
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-targets += .vmlinux.export.o
-vmlinux.unstripped: .vmlinux.export.o
-endif
-
 ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_PRE_LINK_VMLINUX
 vmlinux.unstripped: arch/$(SRCARCH)/tools/vmlinux.arch.o
 
@@ -72,8 +67,8 @@ cmd_link_vmlinux =                                                    \
        $< "$(LD)" "$(KBUILD_LDFLAGS)" "$(LDFLAGS_vmlinux)" "$@";       \
        $(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true)
 
-targets += vmlinux.unstripped
-vmlinux.unstripped: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh vmlinux.o $(KBUILD_LDS) FORCE
+targets += vmlinux.unstripped .vmlinux.export.o
+vmlinux.unstripped: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh vmlinux.o .vmlinux.export.o $(KBUILD_LDS) FORCE
        +$(call if_changed_dep,link_vmlinux)
 ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
 vmlinux.unstripped: $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS)
index 51367c2..433849f 100755 (executable)
@@ -73,10 +73,7 @@ vmlinux_link()
                objs="${objs} .builtin-dtbs.o"
        fi
 
-       if is_enabled CONFIG_MODULES; then
-               objs="${objs} .vmlinux.export.o"
-       fi
-
+       objs="${objs} .vmlinux.export.o"
        objs="${objs} init/version-timestamp.o"
 
        if [ "${SRCARCH}" = "um" ]; then