kbuild: remove head-y syntax

Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux.
Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry
point.

A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script.
Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section,
which is placed before the normal ".text" section.

I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system
perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code
placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner.

I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is
a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/head-object-list.txt b/scripts/head-object-list.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dd2ba2eda636
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/head-object-list.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Head objects
+#
+# The objects listed here are placed at the head of vmlinux. A typical use-case
+# is an object that contains the entry point. This is kept for compatibility
+# with head-y, which Kbuild used to support.
+#
+# A counter approach is to control the section placement by the linker script.
+# The code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section, which is placed
+# before the normal ".text" section.
+#
+# If you can achieve the correct code ordering by linker script, please delete
+# the entry from this file.
+#
+arch/alpha/kernel/head.o
+arch/arc/kernel/head.o
+arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.o
+arch/arm/kernel/head.o
+arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
+arch/csky/kernel/head.o
+arch/hexagon/kernel/head.o
+arch/ia64/kernel/head.o
+arch/loongarch/kernel/head.o
+arch/m68k/68000/head.o
+arch/m68k/coldfire/head.o
+arch/m68k/kernel/head.o
+arch/m68k/kernel/sun3-head.o
+arch/microblaze/kernel/head.o
+arch/mips/kernel/head.o
+arch/nios2/kernel/head.o
+arch/openrisc/kernel/head.o
+arch/parisc/kernel/head.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.o
+arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.o
+arch/riscv/kernel/head.o
+arch/s390/kernel/head64.o
+arch/sh/kernel/head_32.o
+arch/sparc/kernel/head_32.o
+arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.o
+arch/x86/kernel/head_32.o
+arch/x86/kernel/head_64.o
+arch/x86/kernel/head32.o
+arch/x86/kernel/head64.o
+arch/x86/kernel/ebda.o
+arch/x86/kernel/platform-quirks.o
+arch/xtensa/kernel/head.o