kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists

The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
is missing in the kernel tree.

  WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
           Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.

I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
for external modules by 'make defconfig && make modules_preapre'.

A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
already exists in spite of its incomplete content.

The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.

This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.

Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>

Author: masahir0y

.gitignore

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ modules.order
 /tags
 /TAGS
 /linux
+/modules-only.symvers
 /vmlinux
 /vmlinux.32
 /vmlinux.map

Documentation/dontdiff

@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ mktables
 mktree
 mkutf8data
 modpost
+modules-only.symvers
 modules.builtin
 modules.builtin.modinfo
 modules.nsdeps

Makefile

@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ endif # CONFIG_MODULES
 # make distclean Remove editor backup files, patch leftover files and the like
 
 # Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
-CLEAN_FILES += include/ksym vmlinux.symvers \
+CLEAN_FILES += include/ksym vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
 	       modules.builtin modules.builtin.modinfo modules.nsdeps \
 	       compile_commands.json .thinlto-cache
 

scripts/Makefile.modpost

@@ -68,7 +68,20 @@ else
 ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
 
 input-symdump := vmlinux.symvers
-output-symdump := Module.symvers
+output-symdump := modules-only.symvers
+
+quiet_cmd_cat = GEN     $@
+      cmd_cat = cat $(real-prereqs) > $@
+
+ifneq ($(wildcard vmlinux.symvers),)
+
+__modpost: Module.symvers
+Module.symvers: vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,cat)
+
+targets += Module.symvers
+
+endif
 
 else
 

scripts/mod/modpost.c

@@ -2423,19 +2423,6 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname)
 	fatal("parse error in symbol dump file\n");
 }
 
-/* For normal builds always dump all symbols.
- * For external modules only dump symbols
- * that are not read from kernel Module.symvers.
- **/
-static int dump_sym(struct symbol *sym)
-{
-	if (!external_module)
-		return 1;
-	if (sym->module->from_dump)
-		return 0;
-	return 1;
-}
-
 static void write_dump(const char *fname)
 {
 	struct buffer buf = { };
@@ -2446,7 +2433,7 @@ static void write_dump(const char *fname)
 	for (n = 0; n < SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE ; n++) {
 		symbol = symbolhash[n];
 		while (symbol) {
-			if (dump_sym(symbol)) {
+			if (!symbol->module->from_dump) {
 				namespace = symbol->namespace;
 				buf_printf(&buf, "0x%08x\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n",
 					   symbol->crc, symbol->name,