Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Include external modules compile flags

From: Gregory Rose
Date: Tue Jan 28 2020 - 10:38:04 EST


On 1/27/2020 7:35 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 6:50 AM Greg Rose <gvrose8192@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since this commit:
'commit 9b9a3f20cbe0 ("kbuild: split final module linking out into Makefile.modfinal")'
at least one out-of-tree external kernel module build fails
during the modfinal make phase because Makefile.modfinal does
not include the ccflags-y variable from the exernal module's Kbuild.
ccflags-y is passed only for compiling C files in that directory.

It is not used for compiling *.mod.c
This is true for both in-kernel and external modules.

So, ccflags-y is not a good choice
for passing such flags that should be globally effective.


Maybe, KCFLAGS should work.


module:
$(MAKE) KCFLAGS=... M=$(PWD) -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build modules


Thanks,

I'll see if I can get that to work.

- Greg



Make sure to include the external kernel module's Kbuild so that the
necessary command line flags from the external module are set.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
index 411c1e60..a645ba6 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ __modfinal: $(modules)
modname = $(notdir $(@:.mod.o=))
part-of-module = y

+# Include the module's Makefile to find KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
+include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
+ $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild)
+
quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC [M] $@
cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) -c -o $@ $<

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