From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] kbuild: add arch specific post-module-link pass
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:16:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160806201629.GC25821@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470399123-8455-4-git-send-email-npiggin@gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:12:01PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Add an option for architectures to pass over modules after they are
> linked. powerpc will use this to fix up alternate instruction patch
> relocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 6 ++++++
> Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/Makefile.modpost | 8 ++++++++
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> index 13f888a..f6c065b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> @@ -952,6 +952,12 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
> $(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) set by the top level Makefile to "D" (deterministic
> mode) if this option is supported by $(AR).
>
> + KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL Arch-specific command to run after module link
> +
> + $(KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL) is used to add an arch-specific pass over
> + modules after their final link. E.g., powerpc uses this to adjust
> + relative branches of "alternate code patching" sections.
> +
This needs documentation in kbuild.txt, where there is a
nearly full lst of KBUILD_ variables.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-06 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-05 12:11 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 3:50 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-06 20:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-07 1:49 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-08-07 3:34 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-07 4:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-07 14:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:19 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:25 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 9:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 20:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-07 5:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-08 3:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-08 4:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-07 9:57 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-07 11:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-07 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-07 23:49 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-08 15:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-08 23:50 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-09 22:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-09 3:16 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-09 22:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-09 23:08 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-10 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] kbuild: add arch specific post-module-link pass Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:56 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 20:16 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2016-08-08 3:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: switch to using thin archives Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc/64: use linker dce Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:32 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-07 20:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-08 3:53 ` Nicholas Piggin
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