Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: preprocess module linker script

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 6:29 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we
> do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512)
>
> The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter
> is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by
> 'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created
> by 'make modules_prepare'.
>
> You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by
> 'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to
> arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from
> scripts/module.lds.S.
>
> scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the
> build artifacts under scripts/.
>
> You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  arch/m68k/Makefile                                     |  1 -
>  .../{kernel/module.lds => include/asm/module.lds.h}    |  0

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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