[PATCH 0/4] kbuild: generate module.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped instead of vmlinux.o

[Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>]

Currently, modules.builtin.modinfo is generated from vmlinux.o, which
occurs before modpost. So, we cannot include modpost-processed data
into modules.builtin.modinfo.

This patch set allows to generate modules.builtin.modinfo from
vmlinux.unstripped.

I think this patch set will be useful to clean up this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/cover.1748335606.git.legion@kernel.org/T/#m98813857abf2101bdf67f1b8529a44f5c7f4746d

The original approach generates modules.builtin.modinfo from two files
and then cancatenates them into a single file.

I prefer generating modules.builtin.modinfo from a single point.

I think 1/4 is a good cleanup regardless of modules.builtin.modinfo


Masahiro Yamada (4):
  module: remove meaningless 'name' parameter from __MODULE_INFO()
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped

 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |  2 +-
 include/crypto/algapi.h           |  4 +-
 include/linux/module.h            |  3 --
 include/linux/moduleparam.h       |  9 ++--
 include/net/tcp.h                 |  4 +-
 scripts/Makefile.vmlinux          | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
 scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o        | 26 +----------
 scripts/mksysmap                  |  3 ++
 8 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

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