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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 05/13] kbuild: detect objtool update without using .SECONDEXPANSION
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:32 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:39:56PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Redo commit 8852c5524029 ("kbuild: Fix objtool dependency for
> > 'OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_<obj> := n'") to add the objtool
> > dependency in a cleaner way.
> >
> > Using .SECONDEXPANSION ends up with unreadable code due to escaped
> > dollars. Also, it is not efficient because the second half of
> > Makefile.build is parsed twice every time.
> >
> > Append the objtool dependency to the *.cmd files at the build time.
> >
> > This is what fixdep and gen_ksymdeps.sh already do. So, following the
> > same pattern seems a natural solution.
> >
> > This allows us to drop $$(objtool_deps) entirely.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
>
> Okay, so IIUC, this means objtool (and args) now ends up in the .cmd
> file instead of in the Makefile dep rules? That seems reasonable.


Yes.

For example, after 'make defconfig all',
you can see it at the bottom line of *.cmd files.


$ tail -n 5 kernel/.smp.o.cmd
kernel/smp.o: $(deps_kernel/smp.o)

$(deps_kernel/smp.o):

kernel/smp.o: $(wildcard ./tools/objtool/objtool)





> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> --
> Kees Cook



--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

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