Re: Possible regression due to 269a535ca931 "modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost"

[Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>]

On 3/4/21 5:24 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:21 AM Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> wrote:
> [  snip long description ]
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>> Does that make sense? What I'm missing?
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>> P.S.
>> I've also checked v5.12-rc1 and see the same symptoms
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> Since you ran "make allnoconfig",
> the module feature was disabled.
> (CONFIG_MODULES=n)
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> That is why you cannot build external modules.

That's a good point, yet was not reason for my issue :) It forced me to try with ARCH=arm
(and update toolchain)

$ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabihf- make ARCH=arm mrproper
$ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabihf- make ARCH=arm vexpress_defconfig
$ grep -w CONFIG_MODULES .config
CONFIG_MODULES=y
$ grep "=m" .config
$ echo $?
1
$ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabihf- make ARCH=arm Image -j5 > /dev/null 
$ ls *.symvers
vmlinux.symvers
$ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabihf- make ARCH=arm Image -j5 modules > /dev/null 
$ ls *.symvers
Module.symvers  vmlinux.symvers

So, `make modules` seems to become be mandatory. I'll go and update my scripts...

Cheers
Vladimir


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>> Cheers
>> Vladimir
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> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
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