kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS

include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_*
as a placeholder.

Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be
used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends
on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset
to the reference of CRC.

It is time to get rid of this complexity.

Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs,
it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules.

Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of
symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c
files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before,
*.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal.

No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the
same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not.
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed.

Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in
objects, but this step is unneeded too.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7a63abf22399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+include include/config/auto.conf
+include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
+
+# for c_flags
+include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.lib
+
+quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC      $@
+      cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) -c -o $@ $<
+
+%.o: %.c FORCE
+	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_o_c)
+
+targets := $(MAKECMDGOALS)
+
+# Add FORCE to the prequisites of a target to force it to be always rebuilt.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PHONY += FORCE
+FORCE:
+
+# Read all saved command lines and dependencies for the $(targets) we
+# may be building above, using $(if_changed{,_dep}). As an
+# optimization, we don't need to read them if the target does not
+# exist, we will rebuild anyway in that case.
+
+existing-targets := $(wildcard $(sort $(targets)))
+
+-include $(foreach f,$(existing-targets),$(dir $(f)).$(notdir $(f)).cmd)
+
+.PHONY: $(PHONY)