kbuild: simplify dependency generation for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 01:05:26 +0000 (10:05 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Sat, 1 Dec 2018 14:13:14 +0000 (23:13 +0900)
commitbbda5ec671d3fe62faefa1cab7270aa586042a4b
treea1d375f74ad25efd2797bffaadfb0dc5fc1f65fe
parentee3e46b7efd2954479f87030d31fda3c22bbc763
kbuild: simplify dependency generation for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS

My main motivation of this commit is to clean up scripts/Kbuild.include
and scripts/Makefile.build.

Currently, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS works with a tricky gimmick;
possibly exported symbols are detected by letting $(CPP) replace
EXPORT_SYMBOL* with a special string '=== __KSYM_*===', which is
post-processed by sed, and passed to fixdep. The extra preprocessing
is costly, and hacking cmd_and_fixdep is ugly.

I came up with a new way to find exported symbols; insert a dummy
symbol __ksym_marker_* to each potentially exported symbol. Those
dummy symbols are picked up by $(NM), post-processed by sed, then
appended to .*.cmd files. I collected the post-process part to a
new shell script scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh for readability. The dummy
symbols are put into the .discard.* section so that the linker
script rips them off the final vmlinux or modules.

A nice side-effect is building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS will
be much faster.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
include/asm-generic/export.h
include/linux/export.h
scripts/Kbuild.include
scripts/Makefile.build
scripts/basic/fixdep.c
scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh [new file with mode: 0755]