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Masahiro Yamada 4475dff55c kbuild: fix false-positive modpost warning when all symbols are trimmed 
Nathan reports that the mips defconfig emits the following warning:

  WARNING: modpost: Symbol info of vmlinux is missing. Unresolved symbol check will be entirely skipped.

This false-positive happens when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled,
but no CONFIG option is set to 'm'.

Commit a0590473c5 ("nfs: fix PNFS_FLEXFILE_LAYOUT Kconfig default")
turned the last 'm' into 'y' for the mips defconfig, and uncovered
this issue.

In this case, the module feature itself is enabled, but we have no
module to build. As a result, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS drops all the
instances of EXPORT_SYMBOL. Then, modpost wrongly assumes vmlinux is
missing because vmlinux.symvers is empty. (As another false-positive
case, you can create a module that does not use any symbol of vmlinux).

The current behavior is to entirely suppress the unresolved symbol
warnings when vmlinux is missing just because there are too many.
I found the origin of this code in the historical git tree. [1]

If this is a matter of noisiness, I think modpost can display the
first 10 warnings, and the number of suppressed warnings at the end.

You will get a bit noisier logs when you run 'make modules' without
vmlinux, but such warnings are better to show because you never know
the resulting modules are actually loadable or not.

This commit changes the following:

 - If any of input *.symver files is missing, pass -w option to let
   the module build keep going with warnings instead of errors.

 - If there are too many (10+) unresolved symbol warnings, show only
   the first 10, and also the number of suppressed warnings.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=1cc0e0529569bf6a94f6d49770aa6d4b599d2c46

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2021-04-25 05:17:53 +09:00
arch arm64: move --fix-cortex-a53-843419 linker test to Kconfig 2021-04-25 05:15:33 +09:00
block block: Discard page cache of zone reset target range 2021-03-11 11:49:25 -07:00
certs certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID 2021-01-21 16:16:10 +00:00
crypto crypto: mips/poly1305 - enable for all MIPS processors 2021-03-08 11:52:17 +01:00
Documentation kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-04-25 05:17:02 +09:00
drivers A set of irqchip updates: 2021-03-14 13:33:33 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-14 12:23:34 -07:00
include A set of irqchip updates: 2021-03-14 13:33:33 -07:00
init kbuild: check the minimum assembler version in Kconfig 2021-04-25 05:14:41 +09:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV kernel stack leak 2021-03-14 14:33:27 -07:00
lib kbuild: dwarf: use AS_VERSION instead of test_dwarf5_support.sh 2021-04-25 05:15:10 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-14 12:23:34 -07:00
net NFS Client Bugfixes for Linux 5.10-rc3 2021-03-12 14:19:35 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-03-09 17:15:56 -08:00
scripts kbuild: fix false-positive modpost warning when all symbols are trimmed 2021-04-25 05:17:53 +09:00
security Revert 95ebabde38 ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities") 2021-03-12 15:27:14 -06:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Cancel pending works before suspend 2021-03-10 12:52:01 +01:00
tools A single objtool fix to handle the PUSHF/POPF validation correctly for the 2021-03-14 13:15:55 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: x86/mmu: Consider the hva in mmu_notifier retry 2021-02-22 13:16:53 -05:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.