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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 385a5ef41c17..9b9c4797fc55 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. --- 6.8 Custom kbuild commands --- 6.9 Preprocessing linker scripts --- 6.10 Generic header files + --- 6.11 Post-link pass === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers --- 7.1 header-y @@ -1237,6 +1238,21 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): to list the file in the Kbuild file. See "7.4 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc. +--- 6.11 Post-link pass + + If the file arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink exists, this makefile + will be invoked for post-link objects (vmlinux and modules.ko) + for architectures to run post-link passes on. Must also handle + the clean target. + + This pass runs after kallsyms generation. If the architecture + needs to modify symbol locations, rather than manipulate the + kallsyms, it may be easier to add another postlink target for + .tmp_vmlinux? targets to be called from link-vmlinux.sh. + + For example, powerpc uses this to check relocation sanity of + the linked vmlinux file. + === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers The kernel includes a set of headers that is exported to userspace. |