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| author | Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> | 2016-08-24 22:29:21 +1000 |
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| committer | Bruno Martins <bgcngm@gmail.com> | 2022-10-28 15:57:23 +0100 |
| commit | 427d0fc67dc104ff2ecc95476409392bc53ce5c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 5511ab5a50a7eabc53c6104c7b531724a8ad28dd /Documentation | |
| parent | 69f8a31838a3f5b90d6a26209285d1114c81fe53 (diff) | |
BACKPORT: kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
Allow architectures to create arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink with targets
for vmlinux, modules.ko, and clean, which will be invoked after final
linking of vmlinux and modules.
powerpc will use this to check vmlinux linker relocations for sanity,
and may use it to fix up alternate instruction patch branch addresses.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit fbe6e37dab974dd0fc3660c001895f7bfd771c9a)
Change-Id: Ic312087b1dc0e19797ea1bde54e61e84b300c45b
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <daloni@magicleap.com>
Signed-off-by: Davide Garberi <dade.garberi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 64c84e2d06c0..fba7bed6193a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. --- 6.8 Custom kbuild commands --- 6.9 Preprocessing linker scripts --- 6.10 Generic header files + --- 6.11 Post-link pass === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers --- 7.1 no-export-headers-y @@ -1251,6 +1252,21 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): For example, powerpc uses this to check relocation sanity of the linked vmlinux file. +--- 6.11 Post-link pass + + If the file arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink exists, this makefile + will be invoked for post-link objects (vmlinux and modules.ko) + for architectures to run post-link passes on. Must also handle + the clean target. + + This pass runs after kallsyms generation. If the architecture + needs to modify symbol locations, rather than manipulate the + kallsyms, it may be easier to add another postlink target for + .tmp_vmlinux? targets to be called from link-vmlinux.sh. + + For example, powerpc uses this to check relocation sanity of + the linked vmlinux file. + === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers The kernel includes a set of headers that is exported to userspace. |