[PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add OBJSIZE variable for the size tool

From: Vasily Gorbik
Date: Tue Aug 06 2019 - 06:56:54 EST


Define and export OBJSIZE variable for "size" tool from binutils to be
used in architecture specific Makefiles (naming the variable just "SIZE"
would be too risky). In particular this tool is useful to perform checks
that early boot code is not using bss section (which might have not been
zeroed yet or intersects with initrd or other files boot loader might
have put right after the linux kernel).

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fa0fbe7851ea..ff4cff29fe46 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ NM = $(CROSS_COMPILE)nm
STRIP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip
OBJCOPY = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy
OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
+OBJSIZE = $(CROSS_COMPILE)size
PAHOLE = pahole
LEX = flex
YACC = bison
@@ -474,9 +475,9 @@ KBUILD_LDFLAGS :=
GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS :=

export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC
-export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP PAHOLE KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS
-export MAKE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
-export HOSTCXX KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
+export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP OBJSIZE PAHOLE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL
+export PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX
+export KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS LDFLAGS_MODULE

export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS
export KBUILD_CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
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