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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2018-02-10 17:25:03 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2018-03-25 20:01:19 +0300
commit6358d6e8b9846c2ff6fd1d4ad2809145635dd813 (patch)
tree3e2ac4f41fef7aaa4207eec852b992f0cfa3b73c /scripts/Makefile.build
parent1fe7d2bb24d7db6175e0b0a31d8fe03dc6ffb16e (diff)
downloadlinux-6358d6e8b9846c2ff6fd1d4ad2809145635dd813.tar.xz
kbuild: remove incremental linking option
This removes the old `ld -r` incremental link option, which has not been selected by any architecture since June 2017. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.build')
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.build32
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index fff770983960..672cf5bfd724 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -458,15 +458,13 @@ $(sort $(subdir-obj-y)): $(subdir-ym) ;
#
ifdef builtin-target
-ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES
- cmd_make_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
- cmd_make_empty_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
- quiet_cmd_link_o_target = AR $@
-else
- cmd_make_builtin = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o
- cmd_make_empty_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcs$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
- quiet_cmd_link_o_target = LD $@
-endif
+# built-in.o archives are made with no symbol table or index which
+# makes them small and fast, but unable to be used by the linker.
+# scripts/link-vmlinux.sh builds an aggregate built-in.o with a symbol
+# table and index.
+cmd_make_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
+cmd_make_empty_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
+quiet_cmd_link_o_target = AR $@
# If the list of objects to link is empty, just create an empty built-in.o
cmd_link_o_target = $(if $(strip $(obj-y)),\
@@ -499,11 +497,8 @@ $(modorder-target): $(subdir-ym) FORCE
ifdef lib-target
quiet_cmd_link_l_target = AR $@
-ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES
- cmd_link_l_target = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcsTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(lib-y)
-else
- cmd_link_l_target = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcs$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(lib-y)
-endif
+# lib target archives do get a symbol table and index
+cmd_link_l_target = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcsTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(lib-y)
$(lib-target): $(lib-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,link_l_target)
@@ -551,13 +546,8 @@ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-m)))), $^)
cmd_link_multi-link = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(link_multi_deps) $(cmd_secanalysis)
-ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES
- quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = AR $@
- cmd_link_multi-y = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(link_multi_deps)
-else
- quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = LD $@
- cmd_link_multi-y = $(cmd_link_multi-link)
-endif
+quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = AR $@
+cmd_link_multi-y = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(link_multi_deps)
quiet_cmd_link_multi-m = LD [M] $@
cmd_link_multi-m = $(cmd_link_multi-link)