Re: [PATCH] kbuild: lto: fix module versionings mismatch in incremental build

[Lecopzer Chen]

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:26:58PM +0800, Lecopzer Chen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:51:09PM +0800, Lecopzer Chen wrote:
> > > > When building modules(CONFIG_...=m), I found some of module versions
> > > > are incorrect and set to 0.
> > > > This can be found in build log for first clean build which shows
> > > > 
> > > > WARNING: EXPORT symbol "XXXX" [drivers/XXX/XXX.ko] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> > > 
> > > I'm doing this, and I don't see the problem:
> > > 
> > > $ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 distclean
> > > $ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 menuconfig
> > > 	*enable LTO*
> > > 	*enable a module*
> > > $ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 -j...
> > > 
> > > What series of commands (and .config) shows this for you?
> > 
> > Hi Kees,
> > 
> > Thanks for you checking.
> > 
> > After double checking in clean android kernel build, this causes by
> > make version.
> > (I have build failed in Linux LTO,
> > seems it's not well support in contract to android?)
> > 
> > I knew Google has LTO first in Android and upstream later, and most code
> > are same as upstream, so the env here I use Android common kernel for
> > easily testing.
> > 
> > 
> > Test env is android common kernel: android12-5.4 [1] with its latest code
> > and it builds from build.sh[2]
> > 
> > $ BUILD_CONFIG=common/build.config.gki.aarch64 build/build.sh
> > + make O=.... LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 DEPMOD=depmod -j12 Image modules Image.lz4
> > 
> > With make set to v3.81, this can be reproduced with CONFIG_TEE=m.
> > With version >= 4.2 this is not reproducible.
> 
> Ah, very interesting. While there are tests in Makefile for
> MAKE_VERSION, if we want to do this, it should likely be extended to
> Kconfig, as that's where the initial version tests for things happen. We
> could require MAKE_VERSION >= 4.2 for LTO?
> 
> -Kees
 
Yes, We can imitate how CLANG_VERSION was implemented in Kconfig.

Accroding to GNU make release page[1], I've only tested for 3.81,
4.2 and 4.3.
4.2 was released in 2016, I think it's fine for LTO lowest version.


[1] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/


thanks,
Lecopzer