From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] kbuild: add arch specific post-link pass
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:17:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818101711.0e6b27c6@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160817095632.GA5187@ravnborg.org>
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:56:33 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index 1d26fdb..20d3bfd 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -954,8 +954,14 @@ include/generated/autoksyms.h: FORCE
> > cmd_link-vmlinux = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_vmlinux)
> > quiet_cmd_link-vmlinux = LINK $@
> >
> > +# Optional arch pass after final link
> > +ARCH_POSTLINK := $(wildcard $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.postlink)
> > + cmd_postlink-vmlinux = \
> > + $(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true)
> > +
> > vmlinux: scripts/link-vmlinux.sh vmlinux_prereq $(vmlinux-deps) FORCE
> > +$(call if_changed,link-vmlinux)
> > + +$(call if_changed,postlink-vmlinux)
> >
> > # Build samples along the rest of the kernel
> > ifdef CONFIG_SAMPLES
> > @@ -1279,6 +1285,7 @@ $(clean-dirs):
> >
> > vmlinuxclean:
> > $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean
> > + $(Q)$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) clean)
> >
> > clean: archclean vmlinuxclean
> >
> Another option would be to embed the logic in the link-vmlinux shell script.
> It is much simpler for normal humans to read and understand shell scripts,
> and it would be simpler too.
I did that in the previous patch. I struggle with Makefiles too, but
considering that we need the same recipe for modules, I thought just
doing it the same for both was a bit nicer. But I really can go either
way on it so whatever maintainers prefer I can respin.
Thanks,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-18 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-11 10:16 [PATCH 0/6 v2] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` [PATCH 3/6] kbuild: add arch specific post-link pass Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-16 9:23 ` Michal Marek
2016-08-17 4:43 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-17 4:43 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-17 9:05 ` Michal Marek
2016-08-17 9:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-17 9:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-18 0:17 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2016-08-11 10:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] powerpc: switch to using thin archives Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/64: use linker dead code elimination Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` [PATCH 6/6] powerpc: use the new post-link pass to check relocations Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 10:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-11 12:31 ` [PATCH 0/6 v2] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Stephen Rothwell
2016-08-11 12:31 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-08-11 12:39 ` [PATCH] Xen: remove -fshort-wchar gcc flag Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 12:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 12:51 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2016-08-11 12:51 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-11 14:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 14:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-11 14:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-24 17:18 ` David Vrabel
2016-08-11 13:55 ` [EXPERIMENTAL] enable thin archives and --gc-sections on ARM Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 20:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-11 20:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-11 20:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 20:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-11 21:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-23 6:17 ` [PATCH 0/6 v2] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-23 6:17 ` Nicholas Piggin
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