From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66D002737EB; Fri, 6 Feb 2026 16:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770395761; cv=none; b=ICuO7bfbHrthEOMR8V5f1GGZjAEpT7iQB5e2A3LM/+5sSf3S1fKwSPLb8SEx5+xPy6cdJQrygorCTeLiFShfLySnLpYzGqsiNklngQ5E++4+q4tQMpJaJDcqeswUxP9zC3ANdgHnyb0zWiJsGdmhsUnAL8bX/1gRywgRN6kx6EU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770395761; c=relaxed/simple; bh=M4LNx0DUKPh1lCUDhYpFJhkU46B2yI/gi1E3DmfXGKU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=DYcbxgaDbaqV6UMaRXUAuL78HpBhOpWt07KSIlXCOVsgiNf+TwDmgz+90U5cXPPweONV0t+ihnV5vSbVMf9dqNr3m9ZRAVrlanbVx3lrWrVBKk8r4luHFpQdiWcSlBzwQqoJbGHbkrC7BayFNceNZTZcxSizMiEGmgUiZZl59OQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=aDsgIDsa; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="aDsgIDsa" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7F7E4C116C6; Fri, 6 Feb 2026 16:36:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1770395761; bh=M4LNx0DUKPh1lCUDhYpFJhkU46B2yI/gi1E3DmfXGKU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=aDsgIDsarGZ6CZYnVZ742HWw/UIsFuqAOaRqB0voEN9pV+AbKPAHl7YijT9amMocs bROAGjI0SCIUSloIS2GzitUKBBOMInPZp0iSXVRUlpOCPjkxr3ZJCh+loUqveSph62 pCXqgt9EIwX/ncrkE32V3IGLIQgAAkmt0tfuixgk+93AMSfxxJT2sb2COyD3E4W4T6 FTYZgLSWp48OYJZwkHE7sjja+Ja1Do0pdZR9g90V6sL0WQ93lMvx+zSkJYYFndOmSe lb+du3KThhJWnzFsgptfpcwhQt2Yj0UzbtXEVW2AA7eHdq5TPSUjBIRW0XypskauCt KMDwaZElWn/cA== Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 17:28:31 +0100 From: Nicolas Schier To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= Cc: Nathan Chancellor , Arnd Bergmann , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Sami Tolvanen , Daniel Gomez , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Naveen N Rao , Mimi Zohar , Roberto Sassu , Dmitry Kasatkin , Eric Snowberg , Daniel Gomez , Aaron Tomlin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Nicolas Bouchinet , Xiu Jianfeng , Fabian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnbichler?= , Arnout Engelen , Mattia Rizzolo , kpcyrd , Christian Heusel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E2ju?= Mihai-Drosi , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/17] kbuild: add stamp file for vmlinux BTF data Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Nicolas Schier , Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= , Nathan Chancellor , Arnd Bergmann , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Sami Tolvanen , Daniel Gomez , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Jonathan Corbet , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Naveen N Rao , Mimi Zohar , Roberto Sassu , Dmitry Kasatkin , Eric Snowberg , Daniel Gomez , Aaron Tomlin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Nicolas Bouchinet , Xiu Jianfeng , Fabian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnbichler?= , Arnout Engelen , Mattia Rizzolo , kpcyrd , Christian Heusel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E2ju?= Mihai-Drosi , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org References: <20260113-module-hashes-v4-0-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> <20260113-module-hashes-v4-6-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20260113-module-hashes-v4-6-0b932db9b56b@weissschuh.net> On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 01:28:50PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > The upcoming module hashes functionality will build the modules in > between the generation of the BTF data and the final link of vmlinux. > Having a dependency from the modules on vmlinux would make this > impossible as it would mean having a cyclic dependency. > Break this cyclic dependency by introducing a new target. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh > --- > scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 4 ++-- > scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 6 ++++++ > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier