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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst index 5ea1e72d89c8..6b7368d1f516 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst @@ -341,19 +341,7 @@ more details, with real examples. Examples are: - 1) head objects - - Some objects must be placed at the head of vmlinux. They are - directly linked to vmlinux without going through built-in.a - A typical use-case is an object that contains the entry point. - - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile should specify such objects as head-y. - - Discussion: - Given that we can control the section order in the linker script, - why do we need head-y? - - 2) vmlinux linker script + 1) vmlinux linker script The linker script for vmlinux is located at arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/vmlinux.lds @@ -361,10 +349,6 @@ more details, with real examples. Example:: # arch/x86/kernel/Makefile - extra-y := head_$(BITS).o - extra-y += head$(BITS).o - extra-y += ebda.o - extra-y += platform-quirks.o extra-y += vmlinux.lds $(extra-y) should only contain targets needed for vmlinux. @@ -683,22 +667,27 @@ more details, with real examples. In the above example, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable will be added to KBUILD_CFLAGS only if gcc really accepts it. - cc-ifversion - cc-ifversion tests the version of $(CC) and equals the fourth parameter - if version expression is true, or the fifth (if given) if the version - expression is false. + gcc-min-version + gcc-min-version tests if the value of $(CONFIG_GCC_VERSION) is greater than + or equal to the provided value and evaluates to y if so. + + Example:: + + cflags-$(call gcc-min-version, 70100) := -foo + + In this example, cflags-y will be assigned the value -foo if $(CC) is gcc and + $(CONFIG_GCC_VERSION) is >= 7.1. + + clang-min-version + clang-min-version tests if the value of $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) is greater + than or equal to the provided value and evaluates to y if so. Example:: - #fs/reiserfs/Makefile - ccflags-y := $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0402, -O1) + cflags-$(call clang-min-version, 110000) := -foo - In this example, ccflags-y will be assigned the value -O1 if the - $(CC) version is less than 4.2. - cc-ifversion takes all the shell operators: - -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, and -ge - The third parameter may be a text as in this example, but it may also - be an expanded variable or a macro. + In this example, cflags-y will be assigned the value -foo if $(CC) is clang + and $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) is >= 11.0.0. cc-cross-prefix cc-cross-prefix is used to check if there exists a $(CC) in path with @@ -1099,8 +1088,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): - The values of the above variables are expanded in arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. 5) All object files are then linked and the resulting file vmlinux is located at the root of the obj tree. - The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. + The very first objects linked are listed in scripts/head-object-list.txt. 6) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing and builds the final bootimage. - This includes building boot records @@ -1272,6 +1260,9 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): All object files for vmlinux. They are linked to vmlinux in the same order as listed in KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS. + The objects listed in scripts/head-object-list.txt are exceptions; + they are placed before the other objects. + KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS All .a "lib" files for vmlinux. KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS and @@ -1315,8 +1306,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): machinery is all architecture-independent. - head-y, core-y, libs-y, drivers-y - $(head-y) lists objects to be linked first in vmlinux. + core-y, libs-y, drivers-y $(libs-y) lists directories where a lib.a archive can be located. |