All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>,
	Mahesh Kumar Kalikot Veetil <mkalikot@codeaurora.org>,
	Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@codeaurora.org>
Subject: [RFC 0/2] Kbuild: Support nested composite objects
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:27:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1611343638-28206-1-git-send-email-eberman@codeaurora.org> (raw)

This series was developed after discussion in https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/19/850

The motivation for this series is an out-of-tree module which contains a large
number of source files. This causes Kbuild to exceed the maximum command line
argument length when linking the files. Proposal here permits composite objects
to contain other composite objects. This allows the driver to split linking into
several steps and avoid the maximum command line length error.

Kbuild composite objects only supports one level of composite objects.
That is, a composite object may only be composed of real compilable
source files.

As a simple example, the following Kbuild description is now supported:

bar-a-y := a/bar0.o a/bar1.o
bar-b-y := b/bar2.o b/bar3.o

foo-objs := bar-a.o bar-b.o

obj-m += foo.o

Add such support by recursively searching for composite objects and
listing them in $(multi-used-*) and $(real-obj-*).

Elliot Berman (2):
  Kbuild: Make composite object searching more generic
  Kbuild: Support nested composite objects

 scripts/Makefile.lib | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project


             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-22 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 19:27 Elliot Berman [this message]
2021-01-22 19:27 ` [RFC 1/2] Kbuild: Make composite object searching more generic Elliot Berman
2021-01-26 18:02   ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-22 19:27 ` [RFC 2/2] Kbuild: Support nested composite objects Elliot Berman
2021-01-26 17:59 ` [RFC 0/2] " Masahiro Yamada
2021-01-27 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-13 16:19 ` Trent Piepho

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1611343638-28206-1-git-send-email-eberman@codeaurora.org \
    --to=eberman@codeaurora.org \
    --cc=jjohnson@codeaurora.org \
    --cc=linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=masahiroy@kernel.org \
    --cc=michal.lkml@markovi.net \
    --cc=mkalikot@codeaurora.org \
    --cc=ndesaulniers@google.com \
    --cc=samitolvanen@google.com \
    --cc=tsoni@codeaurora.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.