kbuild: simplify dependency generation for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
My main motivation of this commit is to clean up scripts/Kbuild.include and scripts/Makefile.build. Currently, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS works with a tricky gimmick; possibly exported symbols are detected by letting $(CPP) replace EXPORT_SYMBOL* with a special string '=== __KSYM_*===', which is post-processed by sed, and passed to fixdep. The extra preprocessing is costly, and hacking cmd_and_fixdep is ugly. I came up with a new way to find exported symbols; insert a dummy symbol __ksym_marker_* to each potentially exported symbol. Those dummy symbols are picked up by $(NM), post-processed by sed, then appended to .*.cmd files. I collected the post-process part to a new shell script scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh for readability. The dummy symbols are put into the .discard.* section so that the linker script rips them off the final vmlinux or modules. A nice side-effect is building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS will be much faster. Signed-off-by:Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by:
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
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- include/asm-generic/export.h 8 additions, 5 deletionsinclude/asm-generic/export.h
- include/linux/export.h 9 additions, 9 deletionsinclude/linux/export.h
- scripts/Kbuild.include 0 additions, 28 deletionsscripts/Kbuild.include
- scripts/Makefile.build 7 additions, 0 deletionsscripts/Makefile.build
- scripts/basic/fixdep.c 4 additions, 27 deletionsscripts/basic/fixdep.c
- scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh 25 additions, 0 deletionsscripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
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