[PATCH] kbuild: get lib-y objects back to static library

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Aug 23 2023 - 08:09:12 EST


Revert the following two commits:

- 7273ad2b08f8 ("kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y")
- 7f2084fa55e6 ("[kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably")

Now, lib-y is back to static library again, and the link order is
consistent w/wo CONFIG_MODULES.

Since commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by
modpost"), .vmlinux.export.c contains references to exported symbols.
If a symbol in a lib-y object is exported, that object is always linked
even without any explicit user in vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Makefile | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 87a9eef3fb4b..71e9c65d9eae 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1113,12 +1113,7 @@ export ARCH_DRIVERS := $(drivers-y) $(drivers-m)
# Externally visible symbols (used by link-vmlinux.sh)

KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS := ./built-in.a
-ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS += $(patsubst %/, %/lib.a, $(filter %/, $(libs-y)))
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS := $(filter-out %/, $(libs-y))
-else
KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS := $(patsubst %/,%/lib.a, $(libs-y))
-endif

export KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
export KBUILD_LDS := arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/vmlinux.lds
--
2.39.2