[PATCH 3/5] kbuild: add arch specific post-module-link pass

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 22:12:01 AEST 2016


Add an option for architectures to pass over modules after they are
linked. powerpc will use this to fix up alternate instruction patch
relocations.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 6 ++++++
 Makefile                           | 1 +
 scripts/Makefile.modpost           | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 13f888a..f6c065b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -952,6 +952,12 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) set by the top level Makefile to "D" (deterministic
 	mode) if this option is supported by $(AR).
 
+    KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL   Arch-specific command to run after module link
+
+        $(KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL) is used to add an arch-specific pass over
+        modules after their final link. E.g., powerpc uses this to adjust
+        relative branches of "alternate code patching" sections.
+
     ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS, ARCH_CFLAGS   Overrides the kbuild defaults
 
 	These variables are appended to the KBUILD_CPPFLAGS,
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d5ef31a..99ab8eb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ export KBUILD_AFLAGS AFLAGS_KERNEL AFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL
 export KBUILD_ARFLAGS
+export KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL
 
 # When compiling out-of-tree modules, put MODVERDIR in the module
 # tree rather than in the kernel tree. The kernel tree might
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 1366a94..19f8481 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -121,8 +121,16 @@ quiet_cmd_ld_ko_o = LD [M]  $@
                              $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) \
                              -o $@ $(filter-out FORCE,$^)
 
+ifdef KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL
+quiet_cmd_arch_modpost = ARCH    $@
+      cmd_arch_modpost = $(KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL) $@
+endif
+
 $(modules): %.ko :%.o %.mod.o FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,ld_ko_o)
+ifdef KBUILD_MODPOST_TOOL
+	$(call if_changed,arch_modpost)
+endif
 
 targets += $(modules)
 
-- 
2.8.1



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