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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-30 17:42:58 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-30 17:42:58 +0100
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Mostly simple overlapping changes. For example, David Ahern's adjacency list revamp in 'net-next' conflicted with an adjacency list traversal bug fix in 'net'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
--- 6.8 Custom kbuild commands
--- 6.9 Preprocessing linker scripts
--- 6.10 Generic header files
+ --- 6.11 Post-link pass
=== 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
--- 7.1 header-y
@@ -1237,6 +1238,21 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
to list the file in the Kbuild file.
See "7.4 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc.
+--- 6.11 Post-link pass
+
+ If the file arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink exists, this makefile
+ will be invoked for post-link objects (vmlinux and modules.ko)
+ for architectures to run post-link passes on. Must also handle
+ the clean target.
+
+ This pass runs after kallsyms generation. If the architecture
+ needs to modify symbol locations, rather than manipulate the
+ kallsyms, it may be easier to add another postlink target for
+ .tmp_vmlinux? targets to be called from link-vmlinux.sh.
+
+ For example, powerpc uses this to check relocation sanity of
+ the linked vmlinux file.
+
=== 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
The kernel includes a set of headers that is exported to userspace.