kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y
Kbuild supports not only obj-y but also lib-y to list objects linked to vmlinux. The difference between them is that all the objects from obj-y are forcibly linked to vmlinux, whereas the objects from lib-y are linked as needed; if there is no user of a lib-y object, it is not linked. lib-y is intended to list utility functions that may be called from all over the place (and may be unused at all), but it is a problem for EXPORT_SYMBOL(). Even if there is no call-site in the vmlinux, we need to keep exported symbols for the use from loadable modules. Commit 7f2084fa ("[kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably") worked around it by linking a dummy object, lib-ksyms.o, which contains references to all the symbols exported from lib.a in that directory. It uses the linker script command, EXTERN. Unfortunately, the meaning of EXTERN of ld.lld is different from that of ld.bfd. Therefore, this does not work with LD=ld.lld (CBL issue #515). Anyway, the build rule of lib-ksyms.o is somewhat tricky. So, I want to get rid of it. At first, I was thinking of accumulating lib-y objects into obj-y (or even replacing lib-y with obj-y entirely), but the lib-y syntax is used beyond the ordinary use in lib/ and arch/*/lib/. Examples: - drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile builds lib.a, which is linked into vmlinux in the own way (arm64), or linked to the decompressor (arm, x86). - arch/alpha/lib/Makefile builds lib.a which is linked not only to vmlinux, but also to bootloaders in arch/alpha/boot/Makefile. - arch/xtensa/boot/lib/Makefile builds lib.a for use from arch/xtensa/boot/boot-redboot/Makefile. One more thing, adding everything to obj-y would increase the vmlinux size of allnoconfig (or tinyconfig). For less impact, I tweaked the destination of lib.a at the top Makefile; when CONFIG_MODULES=y, lib.a goes to KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS, which is forcibly linked to vmlinux, otherwise lib.a goes to KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS as before. The size impact for normal usecases is quite small since at lease one symbol in every lib-y object is eventually called by someone. In case you are intrested, here are the figures. x86_64_defconfig: text data bss dec hex filename 19566602 5422072 1589328 26578002 1958c52 vmlinux.before 19566932 5422104 1589328 26578364 1958dbc vmlinux.after The case with the biggest impact is allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y. ARCH=x86 allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y: text data bss dec hex filename 1175162 254740 1220608 2650510 28718e vmlinux.before 1177974 254836 1220608 2653418 287cea vmlinux.after Hopefully this is still not a big deal. The per-file trimming with the static library is not so effective after all. If fine-grained optimization is desired, some architectures support CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which trims dead code per-symbol basis. When LTO is supported in mainline, even better optimization will be possible. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/515 Signed-off-by:Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reported-by:
kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reviewed-by:
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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