Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:26:01 +0200 | From | Jessica Yu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: preprocess module linker script |
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+++ Masahiro Yamada [08/09/20 13:27 +0900]: >There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we >do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512) > >The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter >is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by >'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created >by 'make modules_prepare'. > >You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by >'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to >arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from >scripts/module.lds.S. > >scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the >build artifacts under scripts/. > >You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>. > >Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> >Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> >Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Thanks for working on this!
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