Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 14:04:21 EST


On 17.07.19 08:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Towards the goal of removing MODVERDIR, read out modules.order to get
> the list of modules to be processed. This is simpler than parsing *.mod
> files in $(MODVERDIR).
>
> For external modules, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/modules.order should be read.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add ifdef CONFIG_MODULES to avoid warning
>
> Changes in v2: None
>
> scripts/Makefile.modpost | 15 +++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
> index fec6ec2ffa47..5841508ffca9 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
> @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
> # b) A <module>.o file which is the .o files above linked together
> # c) A <module>.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)/, listing the name of the
> # the preliminary <module>.o file, plus all .o files
> +# d) modules.order, which lists all the modules
>
> # Stage 2 is handled by this file and does the following
> -# 1) Find all modules from the files listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
> +# 1) Find all modules listed in modules.order
> # 2) modpost is then used to
> # 3) create one <module>.mod.c file pr. module
> # 4) create one Module.symvers file with CRC for all exported symbols
> @@ -60,10 +61,12 @@ include scripts/Makefile.lib
> kernelsymfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
> modulesymfile := $(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/Module.symvers
>
> -# Step 1), find all modules listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
> -MODLISTCMD := find $(MODVERDIR) -name '*.mod' | xargs -r grep -h '\.ko$$' | sort -u
> -__modules := $(shell $(MODLISTCMD))
> -modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko, $(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
> +modorder := $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/)modules.order
> +
> +# Step 1), find all modules listed in modules.order
> +ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> +modules := $(sort $(shell cat $(modorder)))
> +endif
>
> # Stop after building .o files if NOFINAL is set. Makes compile tests quicker
> _modpost: $(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL), $(modules:.ko:.o),$(modules))
> @@ -84,7 +87,7 @@ MODPOST_OPT=$(subst -i,-n,$(filter -i,$(MAKEFLAGS)))
>
> # We can go over command line length here, so be careful.
> quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $(words $(filter-out vmlinux FORCE, $^)) modules
> - cmd_modpost = $(MODLISTCMD) | sed 's/\.ko$$/.o/' | $(modpost) $(MODPOST_OPT) -s -T -
> + cmd_modpost = sed 's/ko$$/o/' $(modorder) | $(modpost) $(MODPOST_OPT) -s -T -
>
> PHONY += __modpost
> __modpost: $(modules:.ko=.o) FORCE
>

This affects also external modules builds: I have patterns here that do

[Makefile]
subdir-y := some-module

[some-module/Makefile]
obj-m := some-module.o

and since this patch, the final some-module.ko is no longer built. Am I missing
something in the kbuild makefiles, or is this a regression?

Jan

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