Re: [PATCH 3/9] kbuild: Do not pass arguments to link-vmlinux.sh

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu Apr 05 2018 - 21:00:54 EST


2018-04-06 3:59 GMT+09:00 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 12:50:00AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2018-04-06 0:16 GMT+09:00 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > There's no need to pass LD* arguments to link-vmlinux.sh,
>> > because they are passed as variables. The only argument
>> > the link-vmlinux.sh supports is the 'clean' argument.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>>
>> Wrong.
>>
>> $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux)
>> exist here so that any change in them
>> invokes scripts/linkk-vmlinux.sh
>
> sry, I can't see that.. but it's just a side fix,
> which is actually not needed for the rest
>
> I'll check on more and address this separately


The link command is recorded in .vmlinux.cmd
then, it is checked by if_changed in the next rebuild
because link-vmlinux is invoked by $(call if_changed,...)

+$(call if_changed,link-vmlinux)



> thanks,
> jirka
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Makefile | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> > index d3300e46f925..a65a3919c6ad 100644
>> > --- a/Makefile
>> > +++ b/Makefile
>> > @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ 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) ; \
>> > + $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< ; \
>> > $(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true)
>> >
>> > vmlinux: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh vmlinux_prereq $(vmlinux-deps) FORCE
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards
>> Masahiro Yamada
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada