[PATCH] make: add modules_update target

From: Kylene Jo Hall
Date: Fri Apr 14 2006 - 11:06:18 EST


Here is a a patch that adds a kernel build target called
"modules_update".

The existing "modules_install" target blows away the entire
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel directory and copies out every single
module when called at the top level.

This new "modules_update" target only copies out modules that have
changed, using "cp -u". This less zealous method is a more efficient
approach to module installation for kernel developers working on single,
or small numbers of modules.

Where "make modules_install" was taking ~ 3 minutes, "make
modules_update" is taking < 1 minute, as a rough benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Kylie Hall <kjhall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/Makefile.modupdt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 63 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.15-rc5/Makefile 2005-12-03 23:10:42.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm3/Makefile 2006-04-13 12:05:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -922,6 +919,40 @@ modules: $(vmlinux-dirs) $(if $(KBUILD_B
.PHONY: modules_prepare
modules_prepare: prepare scripts

+# Target to update modules
+.PHONY: modules_update
+modules_update: _modupdt_ _modupdt_post
+
+.PHONY: _modupdt_
+_modupdt_:
+ @if [ -z "`$(DEPMOD) -V 2>/dev/null | grep module-init-tools`" ]; then \
+ echo "Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools"; \
+ echo "See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt";\
+ sleep 1; \
+ fi
+ @rm -f $(MODLIB)/source
+ @mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel
+ @ln -s $(srctree) $(MODLIB)/source
+ @if [ ! $(objtree) -ef $(MODLIB)/build ]; then \
+ rm -f $(MODLIB)/build ; \
+ ln -s $(objtree) $(MODLIB)/build ; \
+ fi
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) -rR -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modupdt
+
+# If System.map exists, run depmod. This deliberately does not have a
+# dependency on System.map since that would run the dependency tree on
+# vmlinux. This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
+# boot a modules.dep even before / is mounted read-write. However the
+# boot script depmod is the master version.
+ifeq "$(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH))" ""
+depmod_opts :=
+else
+depmod_opts := -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r
+endif
+.PHONY: _modupdt_post
+_modupdt_post: _modupdt_
+ if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); fi
+
# Target to install modules
.PHONY: modules_install
modules_install: _modinst_ _modinst_post
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5/scripts/Makefile.modupdt 1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm3/scripts/Makefile.modupdt 2006-04-13 13:37:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# ==========================================================================
+# Installing modules
+# ==========================================================================
+
+.PHONY: __modupdt
+__modupdt:
+
+include scripts/Kbuild.include
+
+#
+
+__modules := $(sort $(shell grep -h '\.ko' /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
+modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko,$(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
+
+.PHONY: $(modules)
+__modupdt: $(modules)
+ @:
+
+ cmd_modules_update = mkdir -p $(2); cp -vu $@ $(2) | $(AWK) -F"'" '{print $$1}' | sed "s/\`/ UPDATE /"
+
+# Modules built outside the kernel source tree go into extra by default
+INSTALL_MOD_DIR ?= extra
+ext-mod-dir = $(INSTALL_MOD_DIR)$(subst $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),,$(@D))
+
+modinst_dir = $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(ext-mod-dir),kernel/$(@D))
+
+$(modules):
+ $(call cmd,modules_update,$(MODLIB)/$(modinst_dir))
+


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