kbuild: remove incremental linking option
This removes the old `ld -r` incremental link option, which has not
been selected by any architecture since June 2017.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index fff7709..672cf5b 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -458,15 +458,13 @@
#
ifdef builtin-target
-ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES
- cmd_make_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
- cmd_make_empty_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
- quiet_cmd_link_o_target = AR $@
-else
- cmd_make_builtin = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o
- cmd_make_empty_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcs$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
- quiet_cmd_link_o_target = LD $@
-endif
+# built-in.o archives are made with no symbol table or index which
+# makes them small and fast, but unable to be used by the linker.
+# scripts/link-vmlinux.sh builds an aggregate built-in.o with a symbol
+# table and index.
+cmd_make_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
+cmd_make_empty_builtin = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS)
+quiet_cmd_link_o_target = AR $@
# If the list of objects to link is empty, just create an empty built-in.o
cmd_link_o_target = $(if $(strip $(obj-y)),\
@@ -499,11 +497,8 @@
ifdef lib-target
quiet_cmd_link_l_target = AR $@
-ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES
- cmd_link_l_target = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcsTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(lib-y)
-else
- cmd_link_l_target = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcs$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(lib-y)
-endif
+# lib target archives do get a symbol table and index
+cmd_link_l_target = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcsTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(lib-y)
$(lib-target): $(lib-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,link_l_target)
@@ -551,13 +546,8 @@
cmd_link_multi-link = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(link_multi_deps) $(cmd_secanalysis)
-ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES
- quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = AR $@
- cmd_link_multi-y = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(link_multi_deps)
-else
- quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = LD $@
- cmd_link_multi-y = $(cmd_link_multi-link)
-endif
+quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = AR $@
+cmd_link_multi-y = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcSTP$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(link_multi_deps)
quiet_cmd_link_multi-m = LD [M] $@
cmd_link_multi-m = $(cmd_link_multi-link)
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index be56a11..601ca8b 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -55,13 +55,11 @@
#
archive_builtin()
{
- if [ -n "${CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES}" ]; then
- info AR built-in.o
- rm -f built-in.o;
- ${AR} rcsTP${KBUILD_ARFLAGS} built-in.o \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT} \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN}
- fi
+ info AR built-in.o
+ rm -f built-in.o;
+ ${AR} rcsTP${KBUILD_ARFLAGS} built-in.o \
+ ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT} \
+ ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN}
}
# Link of vmlinux.o used for section mismatch analysis
@@ -70,20 +68,13 @@
{
local objects
- if [ -n "${CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES}" ]; then
- objects="--whole-archive \
- built-in.o \
- --no-whole-archive \
- --start-group \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
- --end-group"
- else
- objects="${KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT} \
- --start-group \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN} \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
- --end-group"
- fi
+ objects="--whole-archive \
+ built-in.o \
+ --no-whole-archive \
+ --start-group \
+ ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
+ --end-group"
+
${LD} ${LDFLAGS} -r -o ${1} ${objects}
}
@@ -96,46 +87,28 @@
local objects
if [ "${SRCARCH}" != "um" ]; then
- if [ -n "${CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES}" ]; then
- objects="--whole-archive \
- built-in.o \
- --no-whole-archive \
- --start-group \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
- --end-group \
- ${1}"
- else
- objects="${KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT} \
- --start-group \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN} \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
- --end-group \
- ${1}"
- fi
+ objects="--whole-archive \
+ built-in.o \
+ --no-whole-archive \
+ --start-group \
+ ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
+ --end-group \
+ ${1}"
- ${LD} ${LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS_vmlinux} -o ${2} \
+ ${LD} ${LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS_vmlinux} -o ${2} \
-T ${lds} ${objects}
else
- if [ -n "${CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES}" ]; then
- objects="-Wl,--whole-archive \
- built-in.o \
- -Wl,--no-whole-archive \
- -Wl,--start-group \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
- -Wl,--end-group \
- ${1}"
- else
- objects="${KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT} \
- -Wl,--start-group \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN} \
- ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
- -Wl,--end-group \
- ${1}"
- fi
+ objects="-Wl,--whole-archive \
+ built-in.o \
+ -Wl,--no-whole-archive \
+ -Wl,--start-group \
+ ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \
+ -Wl,--end-group \
+ ${1}"
- ${CC} ${CFLAGS_vmlinux} -o ${2} \
- -Wl,-T,${lds} \
- ${objects} \
+ ${CC} ${CFLAGS_vmlinux} -o ${2} \
+ -Wl,-T,${lds} \
+ ${objects} \
-lutil -lrt -lpthread
rm -f linux
fi
