Re: [PATCH] arm64: clean vdso files

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:52 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [+Masahiro]
>
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 07:14:14PM +0000, Andrew Delgadillo wrote:
> > commit a5b8ca97fbf8 ("arm64: do not descend to vdso directories twice")
> > changes the cleaning behavior of arm64's vdso files, in that vdso.lds,
> > vdso.so, and vdso.so.dbg are not removed upon a 'make clean/mrproper':
> >
> > $ make defconfig ARCH=arm64
> > $ make ARCH=arm64
> > $ make mrproper ARCH=arm64
> > $ git clean -nxdf
> > Would remove arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds
> > Would remove arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so
> > Would remove arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
> >
> > To remedy this, manually descend into arch/arm64/kernel/vdso upon
> > cleaning.
> >
> > After this commit:
> > $ make defconfig ARCH=arm64
> > $ make ARCH=arm64
> > $ make mrproper ARCH=arm64
> > $ git clean -nxdf
> > <empty>
>
> Well spotted!



Ah, I missed this. Sorry.

Yes, please do this for vdso,
and vdso32 as well.





> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Delgadillo <adelg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/Makefile | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > index b52481f0605d..ef6598cb5a9b 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ archprepare:
> >  # We use MRPROPER_FILES and CLEAN_FILES now
> >  archclean:
> >       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(boot)
> > +     $(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=arch/arm64/kernel/vdso
>
> I think we also need to clean the vdso32 directory here. Please can you
> send a v2 with that added?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada