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From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
        Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
        linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: ignore *.cmd files for objects that come from libgcc.a
Date:   Sun, 29 May 2022 13:23:18 +0900
Message-Id: <20220529042318.2630379-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Guenter Roeck reported the build breakage for parisc and csky.
I confirmed nios2 and openrisc are broken as well.

The reason is that they borrow libgcc.a from the toolchains.

For example, see this line in arch/parisc/Makefile:

    LIBGCC          := $(shell $(CC) -print-libgcc-file-name)

Some objects in libgcc.a are linked to vmlinux.o, but they do not have
.*.cmd files.

Obviously, there is no EXPORT_SYMBOL in external objects. Ignore them.

(Most of the architectures import library code into the kernel tree.
Perhaps those 4 architectures can do similar, but I am not sure.)

Fixes: f292d875d0dc ("modpost: extract symbol versions from *.cmd files")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20220528224745.GA2501857@roeck-us.net/T/#mac65c20c71c3e272db0350ecfba53fcd8905b0a0
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index a7f6196c7e41..68e4be463a76 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -344,9 +344,16 @@ ${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.build" obj=init need-builtin=1
 modpost_link vmlinux.o
 objtool_link vmlinux.o
 
-# Generate the list of objects in vmlinux
+# Generate the list of in-tree objects in vmlinux
+#
+# This is used to retrieve symbol versions generated by genksyms.
 for f in ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS} ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS}; do
 	case ${f} in
+	*libgcc.a)
+		# Some architectures do '$(CC) --print-libgcc-file-name' to
+		# borrow libgcc.a from the toolchain.
+		# There is no EXPORT_SYMBOL in external objects. Ignore this.
+		;;
 	*.a)
 		${AR} t ${f} ;;
 	*)
-- 
2.32.0