From c442db3f49f27e5a60a641b2ac9a3c6320796ed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:25:17 +0900 Subject: kbuild: remove PROVIDE() for kallsyms symbols This reimplements commit 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references for kallsyms symbols") because I am not a big fan of PROVIDE(). As an alternative solution, this commit prepends one more kallsyms step. KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S # added AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o # added LD .tmp_vmlinux.btf BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2 NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o LD vmlinux Step 0 takes /dev/null as input, and generates .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o, which has a valid kallsyms format with the empty symbol list, and can be linked to vmlinux. Since it is really small, the added compile-time cost is negligible. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier --- kernel/kallsyms_internal.h | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h b/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h index 85480274fc8f..925f2ab22639 100644 --- a/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h +++ b/kernel/kallsyms_internal.h @@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ #include -/* - * These will be re-linked against their real values during the second link - * stage. Preliminary values must be provided in the linker script using the - * PROVIDE() directive so that the first link stage can complete successfully. - */ extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[]; extern const int kallsyms_offsets[]; extern const u8 kallsyms_names[]; -- cgit v1.2.3