[PATCH AUTOSEL for-4.4 39/39] MIPS: Use Makefile.postlink to insert relocations into vmlinux

From: Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 15:56:41 EST


From: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 44079d3509aee89c58f3e4fd929fa53ab2299019 ]

When relocatable support for MIPS was merged, there was no support for
an architecture to add a postlink step for vmlinux. This meant that only
invoking a target within the boot directory, such as uImage, caused the
relocations to be inserted into vmlinux. Building just the vmlinux
target would result in a relocatable kernel with no relocation
information present.

Commit fbe6e37dab97 ("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile")
recified this situation, so MIPS can now define a postlink step to add
relocation information into vmlinux, and remove the additional steps
tacked onto boot targets.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14554/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/Makefile.postlink | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 arch/mips/Makefile.postlink

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile.postlink b/arch/mips/Makefile.postlink
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0ddf0701a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile.postlink
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# ===========================================================================
+# Post-link MIPS pass
+# ===========================================================================
+#
+# 1. Insert relocations into vmlinux
+
+PHONY := __archpost
+__archpost:
+
+include include/config/auto.conf
+include scripts/Kbuild.include
+
+CMD_RELOCS = arch/mips/boot/tools/relocs
+quiet_cmd_relocs = RELOCS $@
+ cmd_relocs = $(CMD_RELOCS) $@
+
+# `@true` prevents complaint when there is nothing to be done
+
+vmlinux: FORCE
+ @true
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE),y)
+ $(call if_changed,relocs)
+endif
+
+%.ko: FORCE
+ @true
+
+clean:
+ @true
+
+PHONY += FORCE clean
+
+FORCE:
+
+.PHONY: $(PHONY)
--
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