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Masahiro Yamada 8b41fc4454 kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf 
Commit bc081dd6e9 ("kbuild: generate modules.builtin") added
infrastructure to generate modules.builtin, the list of all
builtin modules.

Basically, it works like this:

  - Kconfig generates include/config/tristate.conf, the list of
    tristate CONFIG options with a value in a capital letter.

  - scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin makes Kbuild descend into
    directories to collect the information of builtin modules.

I am not a big fan of it because Kbuild ends up with traversing
the source tree twice.

I am not sure how perfectly it should work, but this approach cannot
avoid false positives; even if the relevant CONFIG option is tristate,
some Makefiles forces obj-m to obj-y.

Some examples are:

  arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:
    obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y)         += nvram.o

  net/ipv6/Makefile:
    obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += inet6_hashtables.o

  net/netlabel/Makefile:
    obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += netlabel_calipso.o

Nobody has complained about (or noticed) it, so it is probably fine to
have false positives in modules.builtin.

This commit simplifies the implementation. Let's exploit the fact
that every module has MODULE_LICENSE(). (modpost shows a warning if
MODULE_LICENSE is missing. If so, 0-day bot would already have blocked
such a module.)

I added MODULE_FILE to <linux/module.h>. When the code is being compiled
as builtin, it will be filled with the file path of the module, and
collected into modules.builtin.info. Then, scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
extracts the list of builtin modules out of it.

This new approach fixes the false-positives above, but adds another
type of false-positives; non-modular code may have MODULE_LICENSE()
by mistake. This is not a big deal, it is just the code is always
orphan. We can clean it up if we like. You can see cleanup examples by:

  $ git log --grep='make.* explicitly non-modular'

To sum up, this commits deletes lots of code, but still produces almost
equivalent results. Please note it does not increase the vmlinux size at
all. As you can see in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, the .modinfo
section is discarded in the link stage.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-01-07 02:18:39 +09:00
arch RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
block block: fix splitting segments on boundary masks 2019-12-30 08:51:18 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf 2020-01-07 02:18:39 +09:00
drivers RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
fs ocfs2: fix the crash due to call ocfs2_get_dlm_debug once less 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
include kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf 2020-01-07 02:18:39 +09:00
init Revert "fs: remove ksys_dup()" 2020-01-02 16:15:33 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-12-22 17:00:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/hugetlb: defer freeing of huge pages if in non-task context 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
net hsr: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in hsr_debugfs_rename() 2019-12-30 20:36:27 -08:00
samples samples/seccomp: Zero out members based on seccomp_notif_sizes 2020-01-02 13:03:39 -08:00
scripts kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf 2020-01-07 02:18:39 +09:00
security + Bug fixes 2020-01-04 19:28:30 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.5-rc5 2020-01-03 11:10:31 -08:00
tools Fixes for seccomp_notify_ioctl uapi sanity 2020-01-02 16:42:10 -08:00
usr kbuild: rename header-test- to no-header-test in usr/include/Makefile 2020-01-07 02:18:38 +09:00
virt PPC KVM fix for 5.5 2019-12-22 13:18:15 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-12-22 09:54:33 -08:00
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CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf 2020-01-07 02:18:39 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.