From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
"Anthony PERARD" <anthony.perard@vates.tech>,
"Michal Orzel" <michal.orzel@amd.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger@xenproject.org>,
"Bertrand Marquis" <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>,
"Volodymyr Babchuk" <volodymyr_babchuk@epam.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] Arm: split xen-syms linking rule
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483052d4-b70e-4005-8b10-4ecf509bf40a@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a78fdea-08ba-4e04-bfa1-ba09730a300b@suse.com>
Doing so, besides (hopefully) adding clarity (not the least by way of
[re-]using pattern rules where possible), also avoids explicit recursive
$(MAKE) invocations.
By re-using the generic rules introduced when the respective x86 rule was
split,
- the .map file now isn't created after the final binary anymore,
- --strip-debug is passed to $(LD) during early linking passes (for
consistency the option is also explicitly added to the optional linking
pass rule),
- CONFIG_{SUPPRESS_DUPLICATE_SYMBOL_WARNINGS,ENFORCE_UNIQUE_SYMBOLS} are
now properly respected.
Orphan section checking, otoh, is getting suppressed for now, until the
about a dozen warnings which would result have been taken care of.
While the 4th linking step continues to be avoided when possible, a
redundant invocation of $(NM) and tools/symbols (plus the assembling of
the resulting .S file) is hopefully deemed acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
---
As for the x86 patch, I'd like to keep the "beautification" part, i.e.
transforming to more use of Kbuild.include machinery, separate.
--- a/xen/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -84,40 +84,12 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_64),y)
ln -sf $(@F) $@.efi
endif
-$(TARGET)-syms: $(objtree)/prelink.o $(obj)/xen.lds
- $(objtree)/tools/symbols $(all_symbols) --empty > $(dot-target).0.S
- $(MAKE) $(build)=$(@D) $(dot-target).0.o
- $(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $< $(build_id_linker) \
- $(dot-target).0.o -o $(dot-target).0
- $(NM) -pa --format=sysv $(dot-target).0 \
- | $(objtree)/tools/symbols $(all_symbols) --sysv --sort \
- > $(dot-target).1.S
- $(MAKE) $(build)=$(@D) $(dot-target).1.o
- $(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $< $(build_id_linker) \
- $(dot-target).1.o -o $(dot-target).1
- $(NM) -pa --format=sysv $(dot-target).1 \
- | $(objtree)/tools/symbols $(all_symbols) --sysv --sort \
- > $(dot-target).2.S
- $(MAKE) $(build)=$(@D) $(dot-target).2.o
- if ! { $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).1.o, $(dot-target).2.o) >/dev/null; }; \
- then \
- set -e; \
- $(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $< $(build_id_linker) \
- $(dot-target).2.o -o $(dot-target).2; \
- $(NM) -pa --format=sysv $(dot-target).2 \
- | $(objtree)/tools/symbols $(all_symbols) --sysv --sort \
- > $(dot-target).3.S; \
- $(MAKE) $(build)=$(@D) $(dot-target).3.o; \
- $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).2.o, $(dot-target).3.o); \
- else \
- ln -sf $(dot-target).2.o $(dot-target).3.o; \
- fi
- $(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $< $(build_id_linker) \
- $(dot-target).3.o -o $@
- $(NM) -pa --format=sysv $@ \
- | $(objtree)/tools/symbols --all-symbols --xensyms --sysv --sort \
- > $@.map
- rm -f $(dot-target).[0-9]* $(@D)/..$(@F).[0-9]*
+LAST_LINKING_PASS := 3
+
+include scripts/Makefile.link
+
+# Suppress orphan section checking for the time being.
+orphan-handling-y :=
.PHONY: include
include:
--- a/xen/scripts/Makefile.link
+++ b/xen/scripts/Makefile.link
@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ final-image-check-y ?= true
$(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $(filter %.o,$^) \
$(build_id_linker) --strip-debug -o $@
+ifneq ($(LAST_LINKING_PASS),2)
+
+.$(TARGET)-syms.2: $(objtree)/prelink.o .$(TARGET)-syms.2.o $(obj)/xen.lds
+ if ! { $(call compare-symbol-tables, .$(TARGET)-syms.1.o, .$(TARGET)-syms.2.o) >/dev/null; }; \
+ then \
+ $(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $(filter %.o,$^) \
+ $(build_id_linker) --strip-debug -o $@; \
+ else \
+ ln -sf .$(TARGET)-syms.1 $@; \
+ fi
+
+endif
+
.$(TARGET)-syms.$(LAST_LINKING_PASS): $(objtree)/prelink.o \
.$(TARGET)-syms.$(LAST_LINKING_PASS).o \
$(obj)/xen.lds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-26 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-26 11:57 [PATCH v2 0/7] build: split and unify linking of final image(s) Jan Beulich
2026-08-26 12:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] x86: split xen-syms/xen.efi linking rules Jan Beulich
2026-09-02 14:52 ` Anthony PERARD
2026-09-03 7:26 ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-26 12:00 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2026-09-02 16:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Arm: split xen-syms linking rule Anthony PERARD
2026-09-03 7:35 ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-26 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] RISC-V: " Jan Beulich
2026-08-27 15:56 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2026-08-27 16:01 ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-27 16:12 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2026-08-26 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] PPC: " Jan Beulich
2026-09-03 11:50 ` Anthony PERARD
2026-08-26 12:02 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] build: move $(all-symbols-*) Jan Beulich
2026-09-03 11:54 ` Anthony PERARD
2026-08-26 12:03 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] build: move $(compare-symbol-tables) Jan Beulich
2026-09-03 11:55 ` Anthony PERARD
2026-08-26 12:04 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] RISC-V: place .sdata / .srodata / .riscv.attributes Jan Beulich
2026-08-27 15:40 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2026-08-27 15:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-08-27 15:56 ` Jan Beulich
2026-08-27 16:07 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2026-09-01 7:52 ` Jan Beulich
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