[PATCH] kbuild: add CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP expert option

* [PATCH] kbuild: add CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP expert option
@ 2021-02-24 10:52 Rasmus Villemoes
  2021-03-04 22:47 ` Rasmus Villemoes
  2021-03-05  5:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Rasmus Villemoes @ 2021-02-24 10:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Masahiro Yamada, Michal Marek
  Cc: Rasmus Villemoes, linux-kernel, linux-kbuild

It can be quite useful to have ld emit a link map file, in order to
debug or verify that special sections end up where they are supposed
to, and to see what LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION manages to get rid
of.

The only reason I'm not just adding this unconditionally is that the
.map file can be rather large (several MB), and that's a waste of
space when one isn't interested in these things. Also hide the prompt
behind CONFIG_EXPERT.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
 .gitignore              | 1 +
 Makefile                | 3 ++-
 lib/Kconfig.debug       | 9 +++++++++
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3af66272d6f1..d3038aff4485 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ modules.order
 /TAGS
 /linux
 /vmlinux
+/vmlinux.map
 /vmlinux.32
 /vmlinux.symvers
 /vmlinux-gdb.py
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b18dbc634690..be6fbd99a214 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1501,7 +1501,8 @@ endif # CONFIG_MODULES
 # Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
 CLEAN_FILES += include/ksym vmlinux.symvers \
 	       modules.builtin modules.builtin.modinfo modules.nsdeps \
-	       compile_commands.json
+	       compile_commands.json \
+	       vmlinux.map
 
 # Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
 MRPROPER_FILES += include/config include/generated          \
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 5ea0c1773b0a..d6af084c11ae 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -412,6 +412,15 @@ config VMLINUX_VALIDATION
 	depends on STACK_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY && !PARAVIRT
 	default y
 
+config VMLINUX_MAP
+	bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" if EXPERT
+	help
+	  Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld
+	  when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying
+	  and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which
+	  pieces of code get eliminated with
+	  CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION.
+
 config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
 	bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 3b261b0f74f0..bba58839db40 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ vmlinux_link()
 		strip_debug=-Wl,--strip-debug
 	fi
 
+	if [ -n "${CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP}" ]; then
+		map_option="-Map=${output}.map"
+	else
+		map_option=""
+	fi
+
 	if [ "${SRCARCH}" != "um" ]; then
 		if [ -n "${CONFIG_LTO_CLANG}" ]; then
 			# Use vmlinux.o instead of performing the slow LTO
@@ -187,6 +193,7 @@ vmlinux_link()
 		${LD} ${KBUILD_LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS_vmlinux}	\
 			${strip_debug#-Wl,}			\
 			-o ${output}				\
+			${map_option}				\
 			-T ${lds} ${objects}
 	else
 		objects="-Wl,--whole-archive			\
@@ -200,6 +207,7 @@ vmlinux_link()
 		${CC} ${CFLAGS_vmlinux}				\
 			${strip_debug}				\
 			-o ${output}				\
+			${map_option:+-Wl,${map_option}}	\
 			-Wl,-T,${lds}				\
 			${objects}				\
 			-lutil -lrt -lpthread
@@ -303,6 +311,7 @@ cleanup()
 	rm -f .tmp_vmlinux*
 	rm -f System.map
 	rm -f vmlinux
+	rm -f vmlinux.map
 	rm -f vmlinux.o
 }
 
-- 
2.29.2


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