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Commit f73edc89 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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kbuild: unify two modpost invocations



Currently, modpost is executed twice; first for vmlinux, second
for modules.

This commit merges them.

Current build flow
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  1) build obj-y and obj-m objects
    2) link vmlinux.o
      3) modpost for vmlinux
        4) link vmlinux
          5) modpost for modules
            6) link modules (*.ko)

The build steps 1) through 6) are serialized, that is, modules are
built after vmlinux. You do not get benefits of parallel builds when
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh is being run.

New build flow
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  1) build obj-y and obj-m objects
    2) link vmlinux.o
      3) modpost for vmlinux and modules
        4a) link vmlinux
        4b) link modules (*.ko)

In the new build flow, modpost is invoked just once.

vmlinux and modules are built in parallel. One exception is
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y, where modules depend on vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
parent 9c5a0ac3
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