Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] kbuild: yet another series of cleanups (modpost, LTO, MODULE_REL_CRCS, export.h)

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Aug 08 2022 - 01:55:06 EST


Hi Matoro,

Thanks for the report.


I have qemu-system-sparc installed on my Ubuntu machine,
so I think I will be able to test it on sparc, at least.

How did you test these 4 architectures (sparc, alpha, riscv, ia64)?
QEMU?

Thanks




On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 8:39 AM matoro
<matoro_mailinglist_kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Masahiro, I'm sorry to raise this after release but this seems to be
> broken on SOME architectures. So far I have tested:
>
> Affected - sparc, alpha
> Unaffected - riscv, ia64
>
> The affected systems are unable to load modules, similar to the
> previously reported issue. All module loading fails with "disagrees
> about version of symbol module_layout".
>
> Bisect blames 7b4537199a4a8480b8c3ba37a2d44765ce76cd9b, but this does
> not revert cleanly. Presumably CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n would fix, but this
> is a pretty core feature.
>
> Unlike the issue Sedat reported, this is on a GNU toolchain, no clang
> involved.
>
> Here are the configs I am using (with make olddefconfig on upgrade to
> 5.19):
>
> Broken - sparc - https://dpaste.com/5A8F2JD6U
> Broken - alpha - https://dpaste.com/FYKK23L9X
> Working - riscv - https://dpaste.com/HV6Y4V6NT
> Working - ia64 - https://dpaste.com/HDLDNEAK4
>
> Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help track down this
> regression.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] kbuild: yet another series of cleanups
> (modpost, LTO, MODULE_REL_CRCS, export.h)
> Date: 2022-05-13 08:20
> From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 8:42 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is the third batch of cleanups in this development cycle.
> >
>
>
> This series is available at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git
> lto-cleanup-v6
>
>
> >
> > Changes in v6:
> > - Fix false-positive warnings when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y
> >
> > Changes in v5:
> > - Fix the build error when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y (reported by
> > Nathan)
> > - Clean up arch/m68k/include/asm/export.h (Nick)
> > - Keep gen_symversions (and will be removed by a later patch)
> > - Add more comments in the script
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> > - Rename .vmlinux-symver.c to .vmlinux.export.c
> > because I notice this approach is useful for further cleanups,
> > not only for modversioning but also for overall EXPORT_SYMBOL.
> > - New patch
> > - New.
> > Resent of my previous submission.
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210831074004.3195284-10-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > - New
> > Resent of my previous submission
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20210831074004.3195284-11-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - New patch
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Simplify the implementation (parse .cmd files after ELF)
> > - New patch
> > - replace the chain of $(if ...) with $(and )
> > - New patch
> > - New patch
> >
> > Masahiro Yamada (10):
> > modpost: extract symbol versions from *.cmd files
> > kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing
> > CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS
> > kbuild: stop merging *.symversions
> > genksyms: adjust the output format to modpost
> > kbuild: do not create *.prelink.o for Clang LTO or IBT
> > kbuild: check static EXPORT_SYMBOL* by script instead of modpost
> > kbuild: make built-in.a rule robust against too long argument error
> > kbuild: make *.mod rule robust against too long argument error
> > kbuild: add cmd_and_savecmd macro
> > kbuild: rebuild multi-object modules when objtool is updated
> >
> > arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> > arch/m68k/include/asm/export.h | 2 -
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 -
> > arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 -
> > arch/um/Kconfig | 1 -
> > include/asm-generic/export.h | 22 ++-
> > include/linux/export-internal.h | 16 +++
> > include/linux/export.h | 30 ++--
> > init/Kconfig | 4 -
> > kernel/module.c | 10 +-
> > scripts/Kbuild.include | 10 +-
> > scripts/Makefile.build | 134 ++++++------------
> > scripts/Makefile.lib | 7 -
> > scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 5 +-
> > scripts/Makefile.modpost | 9 +-
> > scripts/check-local-export | 64 +++++++++
> > scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 18 +--
> > scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 33 ++---
> > scripts/mod/modpost.c | 236 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > 19 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 284 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 arch/m68k/include/asm/export.h
> > create mode 100644 include/linux/export-internal.h
> > create mode 100755 scripts/check-local-export
> >
> > --
> > 2.32.0
> >
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada