kbuild: merge temporary vmlinux for BTF and kallsyms
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y requires one additional link step. (.tmp_vmlinux.btf) CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y requires two additional link steps. (.tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 and .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2) Enabling both requires three additional link steps. When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y and CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y, the current build process is as follows: KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o LD .tmp_vmlinux.btf # temporary vmlinux for BTF BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 # temporary vmlinux for kallsyms step 1 NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2 # temporary vmlinux for kallsyms step 2 NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o LD vmlinux # final vmlinux This is redundant because the BTF generation and the kallsyms step 1 can be performed against the same temporary vmlinux. When both CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF and CONFIG_KALLSYMS are enabled, we can reduce the number of link steps by one. This commit changes the build process as follows: KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms.S AS .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 # temporary vmlinux for BTF and kallsyms step 1 BTF .tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o NM .tmp_vmlinux1.syms KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.S AS .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.o LD .tmp_vmlinux2 # temporary vmlinux for kallsyms step 2 NM .tmp_vmlinux2.syms KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.S AS .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.o LD vmlinux # final vmlinux Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
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