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<title>linux-toradex.git/scripts/mod/modpost.c, branch v5.16-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2021-09-03T22:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-03T22:33:47+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add -s option (strict mode) to merge_config.sh to make it fail when
   any symbol is redefined.

 - Show a warning if a different compiler is used for building external
   modules.

 - Infer --target from ARCH for CC=clang to let you cross-compile the
   kernel without CROSS_COMPILE.

 - Make the integrated assembler default (LLVM_IAS=1) for CC=clang.

 - Add &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt; to the kernel source instead of borrowing
   &lt;stdarg.h&gt; from the compiler.

 - Add Nick Desaulniers as a Kbuild reviewer.

 - Drop stale cc-option tests.

 - Fix the combination of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
   to handle symbols in inline assembly.

 - Show a warning if 'FORCE' is missing for if_changed rules.

 - Various cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (39 commits)
  kbuild: redo fake deps at include/ksym/*.h
  kbuild: clean up objtool_args slightly
  modpost: get the *.mod file path more simply
  checkkconfigsymbols.py: Fix the '--ignore' option
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between ARCH=um and other architectures
  kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between the ordinary link and Clang LTO
  kbuild: remove stale *.symversions
  kbuild: remove unused quiet_cmd_update_lto_symversions
  gen_compile_commands: extract compiler command from a series of commands
  x86: remove cc-option-yn test for -mtune=
  arc: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  s390: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  ia64: move core-y in arch/ia64/Makefile to arch/ia64/Kbuild
  sparc: move the install rule to arch/sparc/Makefile
  security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...)
  kbuild: sh: remove unused install script
  kbuild: Fix 'no symbols' warning when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSD_KSYMS=y
  kbuild: Switch to 'f' variants of integrated assembler flag
  kbuild: Shuffle blank line to improve comment meaning
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add -s option (strict mode) to merge_config.sh to make it fail when
   any symbol is redefined.

 - Show a warning if a different compiler is used for building external
   modules.

 - Infer --target from ARCH for CC=clang to let you cross-compile the
   kernel without CROSS_COMPILE.

 - Make the integrated assembler default (LLVM_IAS=1) for CC=clang.

 - Add &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt; to the kernel source instead of borrowing
   &lt;stdarg.h&gt; from the compiler.

 - Add Nick Desaulniers as a Kbuild reviewer.

 - Drop stale cc-option tests.

 - Fix the combination of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
   to handle symbols in inline assembly.

 - Show a warning if 'FORCE' is missing for if_changed rules.

 - Various cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (39 commits)
  kbuild: redo fake deps at include/ksym/*.h
  kbuild: clean up objtool_args slightly
  modpost: get the *.mod file path more simply
  checkkconfigsymbols.py: Fix the '--ignore' option
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between ARCH=um and other architectures
  kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between the ordinary link and Clang LTO
  kbuild: remove stale *.symversions
  kbuild: remove unused quiet_cmd_update_lto_symversions
  gen_compile_commands: extract compiler command from a series of commands
  x86: remove cc-option-yn test for -mtune=
  arc: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  s390: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  ia64: move core-y in arch/ia64/Makefile to arch/ia64/Kbuild
  sparc: move the install rule to arch/sparc/Makefile
  security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...)
  kbuild: sh: remove unused install script
  kbuild: Fix 'no symbols' warning when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSD_KSYMS=y
  kbuild: Switch to 'f' variants of integrated assembler flag
  kbuild: Shuffle blank line to improve comment meaning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>modpost: get the *.mod file path more simply</title>
<updated>2021-09-02T23:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-28T09:50:59+00:00</published>
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get_src_version() strips 'o' or 'lto.o' from the end of the object file
path (so, postfixlen is 1 or 5), then adds 'mod'.

If you look at the code closely, mod-&gt;name already holds the base path
with the extension stripped.

Most of the code changes made by commit 7ac204b545f2 ("modpost: lto:
strip .lto from module names") was actually unneeded.

sumversion.c does not need strends(), so it can get back local in
modpost.c again.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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get_src_version() strips 'o' or 'lto.o' from the end of the object file
path (so, postfixlen is 1 or 5), then adds 'mod'.

If you look at the code closely, mod-&gt;name already holds the base path
with the extension stripped.

Most of the code changes made by commit 7ac204b545f2 ("modpost: lto:
strip .lto from module names") was actually unneeded.

sumversion.c does not need strends(), so it can get back local in
modpost.c again.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/bug: Provide better flexibility to WARN_ON/__WARN_FLAGS() with asm goto</title>
<updated>2021-08-15T03:49:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-13T16:38:10+00:00</published>
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Using asm goto in __WARN_FLAGS() and WARN_ON() allows more
flexibility to GCC.

For that add an entry to the exception table so that
program_check_exception() knowns where to resume execution
after a WARNING.

Here are two exemples. The first one is done on PPC32 (which
benefits from the previous patch), the second is on PPC64.

	unsigned long test(struct pt_regs *regs)
	{
		int ret;

		WARN_ON(regs-&gt;msr &amp; MSR_PR);

		return regs-&gt;gpr[3];
	}

	unsigned long test9w(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
	{
		if (WARN_ON(!b))
			return 0;
		return a / b;
	}

Before the patch:

	000003a8 &lt;test&gt;:
	 3a8:	81 23 00 84 	lwz     r9,132(r3)
	 3ac:	71 29 40 00 	andi.   r9,r9,16384
	 3b0:	40 82 00 0c 	bne     3bc &lt;test+0x14&gt;
	 3b4:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3b8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 3bc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0
	 3c0:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3c4:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	0000000000000bf0 &lt;.test9w&gt;:
	 bf0:	7c 89 00 74 	cntlzd  r9,r4
	 bf4:	79 29 d1 82 	rldicl  r9,r9,58,6
	 bf8:	0b 09 00 00 	tdnei   r9,0
	 bfc:	2c 24 00 00 	cmpdi   r4,0
	 c00:	41 82 00 0c 	beq     c0c &lt;.test9w+0x1c&gt;
	 c04:	7c 63 23 92 	divdu   r3,r3,r4
	 c08:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 c0c:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
	 c10:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

After the patch:

	000003a8 &lt;test&gt;:
	 3a8:	81 23 00 84 	lwz     r9,132(r3)
	 3ac:	71 29 40 00 	andi.   r9,r9,16384
	 3b0:	40 82 00 0c 	bne     3bc &lt;test+0x14&gt;
	 3b4:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3b8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 3bc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0

	0000000000000c50 &lt;.test9w&gt;:
	 c50:	7c 89 00 74 	cntlzd  r9,r4
	 c54:	79 29 d1 82 	rldicl  r9,r9,58,6
	 c58:	0b 09 00 00 	tdnei   r9,0
	 c5c:	7c 63 23 92 	divdu   r3,r3,r4
	 c60:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 c70:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
	 c74:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

In the first exemple, we see GCC doesn't need to duplicate what
happens after the trap.

In the second exemple, we see that GCC doesn't need to emit a test
and a branch in the likely path in addition to the trap.

We've got some WARN_ON() in .softirqentry.text section so it needs
to be added in the OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS in modpost.c

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/389962b1b702e3c78d169e59bcfac56282889173.1618331882.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Using asm goto in __WARN_FLAGS() and WARN_ON() allows more
flexibility to GCC.

For that add an entry to the exception table so that
program_check_exception() knowns where to resume execution
after a WARNING.

Here are two exemples. The first one is done on PPC32 (which
benefits from the previous patch), the second is on PPC64.

	unsigned long test(struct pt_regs *regs)
	{
		int ret;

		WARN_ON(regs-&gt;msr &amp; MSR_PR);

		return regs-&gt;gpr[3];
	}

	unsigned long test9w(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
	{
		if (WARN_ON(!b))
			return 0;
		return a / b;
	}

Before the patch:

	000003a8 &lt;test&gt;:
	 3a8:	81 23 00 84 	lwz     r9,132(r3)
	 3ac:	71 29 40 00 	andi.   r9,r9,16384
	 3b0:	40 82 00 0c 	bne     3bc &lt;test+0x14&gt;
	 3b4:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3b8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 3bc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0
	 3c0:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3c4:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	0000000000000bf0 &lt;.test9w&gt;:
	 bf0:	7c 89 00 74 	cntlzd  r9,r4
	 bf4:	79 29 d1 82 	rldicl  r9,r9,58,6
	 bf8:	0b 09 00 00 	tdnei   r9,0
	 bfc:	2c 24 00 00 	cmpdi   r4,0
	 c00:	41 82 00 0c 	beq     c0c &lt;.test9w+0x1c&gt;
	 c04:	7c 63 23 92 	divdu   r3,r3,r4
	 c08:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 c0c:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
	 c10:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

After the patch:

	000003a8 &lt;test&gt;:
	 3a8:	81 23 00 84 	lwz     r9,132(r3)
	 3ac:	71 29 40 00 	andi.   r9,r9,16384
	 3b0:	40 82 00 0c 	bne     3bc &lt;test+0x14&gt;
	 3b4:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3b8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 3bc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0

	0000000000000c50 &lt;.test9w&gt;:
	 c50:	7c 89 00 74 	cntlzd  r9,r4
	 c54:	79 29 d1 82 	rldicl  r9,r9,58,6
	 c58:	0b 09 00 00 	tdnei   r9,0
	 c5c:	7c 63 23 92 	divdu   r3,r3,r4
	 c60:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 c70:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
	 c74:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

In the first exemple, we see GCC doesn't need to duplicate what
happens after the trap.

In the second exemple, we see that GCC doesn't need to emit a test
and a branch in the likely path in addition to the trap.

We've got some WARN_ON() in .softirqentry.text section so it needs
to be added in the OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS in modpost.c

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/389962b1b702e3c78d169e59bcfac56282889173.1618331882.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: modpost: Explicitly warn about unprototyped symbols</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T01:01:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-07T14:02:06+00:00</published>
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One common cause of modpost version generation failures is a failure to
prototype exported assembly functions - the tooling requires this for
exported functions even if they are not and should not be called from C
code in order to do the version mangling for symbols. Unfortunately the
error message is currently rather abstruse, simply saying that "version
generation failed" and even diving into the code doesn't directly show
what's going on since there's several steps between the problem and it
being observed.

Provide an explicit hint as to the likely cause of a version generation
failure to help anyone who runs into this in future more readily diagnose
and fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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One common cause of modpost version generation failures is a failure to
prototype exported assembly functions - the tooling requires this for
exported functions even if they are not and should not be called from C
code in order to do the version mangling for symbols. Unfortunately the
error message is currently rather abstruse, simply saying that "version
generation failed" and even diving into the code doesn't directly show
what's going on since there's several steps between the problem and it
being observed.

Provide an explicit hint as to the likely cause of a version generation
failure to help anyone who runs into this in future more readily diagnose
and fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: add an elfnote for whether vmlinux is built with lto</title>
<updated>2021-04-24T20:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-01T23:27:23+00:00</published>
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Currently, clang LTO built vmlinux won't work with pahole.
LTO introduced cross-cu dwarf tag references and broke
current pahole model which handles one cu as a time.
The solution is to merge all cu's as one pahole cu as in [1].
We would like to do this merging only if cross-cu dwarf
references happens. The LTO build mode is a pretty good
indication for that.

In earlier version of this patch ([2]), clang flag
-grecord-gcc-switches is proposed to add to compilation flags
so pahole could detect "-flto" and then merging cu's.
This will increate the binary size of 1% without LTO though.

Arnaldo suggested to use a note to indicate the vmlinux
is built with LTO. Such a cheap way to get whether the vmlinux
is built with LTO or not helps pahole but is also useful
for tracing as LTO may inline/delete/demote global functions,
promote static functions, etc.

So this patch added an elfnote with a new type LINUX_ELFNOTE_LTO_INFO.
The owner of the note is "Linux".

With gcc 8.4.1 and clang trunk, without LTO, I got
  $ readelf -n vmlinux
  Displaying notes found in: .notes
    Owner                Data size        Description
  ...
    Linux                0x00000004       func
     description data: 00 00 00 00
  ...
With "readelf -x ".notes" vmlinux", I can verify the above "func"
with type code 0x101.

With clang thin-LTO, I got the same as above except the following:
     description data: 01 00 00 00
which indicates the vmlinux is built with LTO.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210325065316.3121287-1-yhs@fb.com/
  [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210331001623.2778934-1-yhs@fb.com/

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;arnaldo.melo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM/Clang v12.0.0-rc4 (x86-64)
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, clang LTO built vmlinux won't work with pahole.
LTO introduced cross-cu dwarf tag references and broke
current pahole model which handles one cu as a time.
The solution is to merge all cu's as one pahole cu as in [1].
We would like to do this merging only if cross-cu dwarf
references happens. The LTO build mode is a pretty good
indication for that.

In earlier version of this patch ([2]), clang flag
-grecord-gcc-switches is proposed to add to compilation flags
so pahole could detect "-flto" and then merging cu's.
This will increate the binary size of 1% without LTO though.

Arnaldo suggested to use a note to indicate the vmlinux
is built with LTO. Such a cheap way to get whether the vmlinux
is built with LTO or not helps pahole but is also useful
for tracing as LTO may inline/delete/demote global functions,
promote static functions, etc.

So this patch added an elfnote with a new type LINUX_ELFNOTE_LTO_INFO.
The owner of the note is "Linux".

With gcc 8.4.1 and clang trunk, without LTO, I got
  $ readelf -n vmlinux
  Displaying notes found in: .notes
    Owner                Data size        Description
  ...
    Linux                0x00000004       func
     description data: 00 00 00 00
  ...
With "readelf -x ".notes" vmlinux", I can verify the above "func"
with type code 0x101.

With clang thin-LTO, I got the same as above except the following:
     description data: 01 00 00 00
which indicates the vmlinux is built with LTO.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210325065316.3121287-1-yhs@fb.com/
  [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210331001623.2778934-1-yhs@fb.com/

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;arnaldo.melo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM/Clang v12.0.0-rc4 (x86-64)
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts: modpost.c: Fix a few typos</title>
<updated>2021-04-24T20:21:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bhaskar Chowdhury</name>
<email>unixbhaskar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-26T05:52:19+00:00</published>
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s/agorithm/algorithm/
s/criterias/criteria/
s/targetting/targeting/   ....two different places.

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury &lt;unixbhaskar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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s/agorithm/algorithm/
s/criterias/criteria/
s/targetting/targeting/   ....two different places.

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury &lt;unixbhaskar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix false-positive modpost warning when all symbols are trimmed</title>
<updated>2021-04-24T20:17:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T18:54:11+00:00</published>
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Nathan reports that the mips defconfig emits the following warning:

  WARNING: modpost: Symbol info of vmlinux is missing. Unresolved symbol check will be entirely skipped.

This false-positive happens when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled,
but no CONFIG option is set to 'm'.

Commit a0590473c5e6 ("nfs: fix PNFS_FLEXFILE_LAYOUT Kconfig default")
turned the last 'm' into 'y' for the mips defconfig, and uncovered
this issue.

In this case, the module feature itself is enabled, but we have no
module to build. As a result, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS drops all the
instances of EXPORT_SYMBOL. Then, modpost wrongly assumes vmlinux is
missing because vmlinux.symvers is empty. (As another false-positive
case, you can create a module that does not use any symbol of vmlinux).

The current behavior is to entirely suppress the unresolved symbol
warnings when vmlinux is missing just because there are too many.
I found the origin of this code in the historical git tree. [1]

If this is a matter of noisiness, I think modpost can display the
first 10 warnings, and the number of suppressed warnings at the end.

You will get a bit noisier logs when you run 'make modules' without
vmlinux, but such warnings are better to show because you never know
the resulting modules are actually loadable or not.

This commit changes the following:

 - If any of input *.symver files is missing, pass -w option to let
   the module build keep going with warnings instead of errors.

 - If there are too many (10+) unresolved symbol warnings, show only
   the first 10, and also the number of suppressed warnings.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=1cc0e0529569bf6a94f6d49770aa6d4b599d2c46

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Nathan reports that the mips defconfig emits the following warning:

  WARNING: modpost: Symbol info of vmlinux is missing. Unresolved symbol check will be entirely skipped.

This false-positive happens when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled,
but no CONFIG option is set to 'm'.

Commit a0590473c5e6 ("nfs: fix PNFS_FLEXFILE_LAYOUT Kconfig default")
turned the last 'm' into 'y' for the mips defconfig, and uncovered
this issue.

In this case, the module feature itself is enabled, but we have no
module to build. As a result, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS drops all the
instances of EXPORT_SYMBOL. Then, modpost wrongly assumes vmlinux is
missing because vmlinux.symvers is empty. (As another false-positive
case, you can create a module that does not use any symbol of vmlinux).

The current behavior is to entirely suppress the unresolved symbol
warnings when vmlinux is missing just because there are too many.
I found the origin of this code in the historical git tree. [1]

If this is a matter of noisiness, I think modpost can display the
first 10 warnings, and the number of suppressed warnings at the end.

You will get a bit noisier logs when you run 'make modules' without
vmlinux, but such warnings are better to show because you never know
the resulting modules are actually loadable or not.

This commit changes the following:

 - If any of input *.symver files is missing, pass -w option to let
   the module build keep going with warnings instead of errors.

 - If there are too many (10+) unresolved symbol warnings, show only
   the first 10, and also the number of suppressed warnings.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=1cc0e0529569bf6a94f6d49770aa6d4b599d2c46

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists</title>
<updated>2021-04-24T20:17:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T18:54:09+00:00</published>
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The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
is missing in the kernel tree.

  WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
           Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.

I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
for external modules by 'make defconfig &amp;&amp; make modules_preapre'.

A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
already exists in spite of its incomplete content.

The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.

This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.

Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
is missing in the kernel tree.

  WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
           Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.

I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
for external modules by 'make defconfig &amp;&amp; make modules_preapre'.

A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
already exists in spite of its incomplete content.

The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.

This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.

Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T18:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T18:15:33+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Jessica Yu:

 - Retire EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(). These
   export types were introduced between 2006 - 2008. All the of the
   unused symbols have been long removed and gpl future symbols were
   converted to gpl quite a long time ago, and I don't believe these
   export types have been used ever since. So, I think it should be safe
   to retire those export types now (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Refactor and clean up some aged code cruft in the module loader
   (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Build {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol only when livepatching is
   enabled, as it is the only caller (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Unexport find_module() and module_mutex and fix the last module
   callers to not rely on these anymore. Make module_mutex internal to
   the module loader (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Harden ELF checks on module load and validate ELF structures before
   checking the module signature (Frank van der Linden)

 - Fix undefined symbol warning for clang (Fangrui Song)

 - Fix smatch warning (Dan Carpenter)

* tag 'modules-for-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
  module: potential uninitialized return in module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
  module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*
  module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE
  module: move struct symsearch to module.c
  module: pass struct find_symbol_args to find_symbol
  module: merge each_symbol_section into find_symbol
  module: remove each_symbol_in_section
  module: mark module_mutex static
  kallsyms: only build {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol when required
  kallsyms: refactor {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol
  module: use RCU to synchronize find_module
  module: unexport find_module and module_mutex
  drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit
  powerpc/powernv: remove get_cxl_module
  module: harden ELF info handling
  module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols
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Pull module updates from Jessica Yu:

 - Retire EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(). These
   export types were introduced between 2006 - 2008. All the of the
   unused symbols have been long removed and gpl future symbols were
   converted to gpl quite a long time ago, and I don't believe these
   export types have been used ever since. So, I think it should be safe
   to retire those export types now (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Refactor and clean up some aged code cruft in the module loader
   (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Build {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol only when livepatching is
   enabled, as it is the only caller (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Unexport find_module() and module_mutex and fix the last module
   callers to not rely on these anymore. Make module_mutex internal to
   the module loader (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Harden ELF checks on module load and validate ELF structures before
   checking the module signature (Frank van der Linden)

 - Fix undefined symbol warning for clang (Fangrui Song)

 - Fix smatch warning (Dan Carpenter)

* tag 'modules-for-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
  module: potential uninitialized return in module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
  module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*
  module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE
  module: move struct symsearch to module.c
  module: pass struct find_symbol_args to find_symbol
  module: merge each_symbol_section into find_symbol
  module: remove each_symbol_in_section
  module: mark module_mutex static
  kallsyms: only build {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol when required
  kallsyms: refactor {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol
  module: use RCU to synchronize find_module
  module: unexport find_module and module_mutex
  drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit
  powerpc/powernv: remove get_cxl_module
  module: harden ELF info handling
  module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols
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<title>module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:28:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-02T12:13:34+00:00</published>
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EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* is not actually used anywhere.  Remove the
unused functionality as we generally just remove unused code anyway.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov &lt;emil.l.velikov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* is not actually used anywhere.  Remove the
unused functionality as we generally just remove unused code anyway.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov &lt;emil.l.velikov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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