Re: [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: remove redundant cleanups in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sun May 29 2022 - 13:32:36 EST


On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 11:38 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 10:20 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > These are cleaned by the top Makefile.
> >
> > vmlinux.o and .vmlinux.d matches the '*.[aios]' and '.*.d' patterns
> > respectively.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I applied this patchset on top of yesterday's kbuild.git#for-next
> (today's did not fit due to "kbuild: do not try to parse *.cmd files
> for objects provided by compiler").
>
> Might be related to this patchset or not:
>
> $ LC_ALL=C ll .*vmlinux*export*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dileks dileks 4.2K May 29 15:11 ..vmlinux.export.o.cmd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dileks dileks 508K May 29 15:11 .vmlinux.export.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dileks dileks 2.6M May 29 15:11 .vmlinux.export.o
>
> You see the leading double-dot for ..vmlinux.export.o.cmd - intended or not?

This is intended.

The source file (.vmlinux.export.c) is a dot file.

.*.cmd prepends one more dot.



>
> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
>
> -Sedat-
>
> > ---
> >
> > scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 2 --
> > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> > index a7f6196c7e41..844fc0125d72 100755
> > --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> > @@ -309,8 +309,6 @@ cleanup()
> > rm -f System.map
> > rm -f vmlinux
> > rm -f vmlinux.map
> > - rm -f vmlinux.o
> > - rm -f .vmlinux.d
> > rm -f .vmlinux.objs
> > rm -f .vmlinux.export.c
> > }
> > --
> > 2.32.0
> >



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada