linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost, branch v2.6.27.23

markers: fix duplicate modpost entry

2008-07-22T16:59:41Z

When a kernel was rebuilt, the previous Module.markers was not cleared. It caused markers with different format strings to appear as duplicates when a markers was changed. This problem is present since scripts/mod/modpost.c started to generate Module.markers, commit b2e3e658b344c6bcfb8fb694100ab2f2b5b2edb0 It therefore applies to 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and linux-next. I merely merged the patches from Roland, Wenji and Takashi here. Credits to Roland McGrath Wenji Huang and Takashi Nishiie for providing the individual fixes. - Changelog : - Integrated Takashi's Makefile modification to clear Module.markers upon make clean. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Wenji Huang Cc: Takashi Nishiie Cc: [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: fix $(src) assignmnet with external modules

2008-05-31T20:28:40Z

When we introduced support for KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS we started to include the externam module's kbuild file when doing the final modpost step. As external modules often do: ccflags-y := -I$(src) We had problems because $(src) was unassinged and gcc then used the next parameter for -I resulting in strange build failures. Fix is to assign $(src) and $(obj) when building external modules. This fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10798 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Tvrtko Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"

kbuild: scripts/Makefile.modpost typo fix

2008-04-26T19:08:25Z

-EVIUSER ;-) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS

2008-04-25T18:45:26Z

This patch adds a new (Kbuild) Makefile variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS. The space separated list of file names assigned to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS is used when calling scripts/mod/modpost during stage 2 of the Kbuild process for non-kernel-tree modules. Signed-off-by: Richard Hacker Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds

2008-03-23T20:38:54Z

The module alias support in the kernel have a consistency check where it is checked that the size of a structure in the kernel and on the build host are the same. For cross builds this check does not make sense so detect when we do cross builds and silently skip the check in these situations. This fixes a build bug for a wireless driver when cross building for arm. Acked-by: Michael Buesch Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: stable@kernel.org

Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file

2008-02-14T00:21:20Z

This adds some new magic in the MODPOST phase for CONFIG_MARKERS. Analogous to the Module.symvers file, the build will now write a Module.markers file when CONFIG_MARKERS=y is set. This file lists the name, defining module, and format string of each marker, separated by \t characters. This simple text file can be used by offline build procedures for instrumentation code, analogous to how System.map and Module.symvers can be useful to have for kernels other than the one you are running right now. The strings are made easy to extract by having the __trace_mark macro define the name and format together in a single array called __mstrtab_* in the __markers_strings section. This is straightforward and reliable as long as the marker structs are always defined by this macro. It is an unreasonable amount of hairy work to extract the string pointers from the __markers section structs, which entails handling a relocation type for every machine under the sun. Mathieu : - Ran through checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: David Smith Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost

2008-01-28T22:21:18Z

If the config option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is not set and we see a Section mismatch present the following to the user: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es). To see additional details select "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" in the Kernel Hacking menu (CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH). If the option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is selected then be verbose in the Section mismatch reporting from mdopost. Sample outputs: WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.text+0x7396): Section mismatch in reference from the function discover_ebda() to the variable .init.data:ebda_addr The function discover_ebda() references the variable __initdata ebda_addr. This is often because discover_ebda lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of ebda_addr is wrong. WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.data+0x74d58): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit() The variable pci_serial_quirks references the function __devexit pci_plx9050_exit() If the reference is valid then annotate the variable with __exit* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: *driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, WARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(__ksymtab+0x630): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_arch_register_cpu to the function .cpuinit.text:arch_register_cpu() The symbol arch_register_cpu is exported and annotated __cpuinit Fix this by removing the __cpuinit annotation of arch_register_cpu or drop the export. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: use LDFLAGS_MODULE only for .ko links

2007-07-25T19:18:19Z

Sam Ravnborg pointed out that Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt already says this is what it's for. This patch makes the reality live up to the documentation. This fixes the problem of LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID getting into too many places. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: do not do section mismatch checks on vmlinux in 2nd pass

2007-07-25T19:14:15Z

We already check and warn about section mismatches from vmlinux (build as vmlinux.o) during first pass so skip the checks during the 2nd pass where we process modules. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux

2007-07-17T08:54:06Z

Previously we did do the check on the .o files used to link vmlinux but that failed to find questionable references across the .o files. Create a dedicated vmlinux.o file used only for section mismatch checks that uses the defualt linker script so section does not get renamed. The vmlinux.o may later be used as part of the the final link of vmlinux but for now it is used fo section mismatch only. For a defconfig build this is instant but for an allyesconfig this add two minutes to a full build (that anyways takes ~2 hours). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg