kbuild: remove head-y syntax

Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux.
Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry
point.

A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script.
Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section,
which is placed before the normal ".text" section.

I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system
perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code
placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner.

I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is
a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
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Masahiro Yamada 2022-09-25 03:19:15 +09:00
parent 3216484550
commit ce697ccee1
24 changed files with 60 additions and 67 deletions

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@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ quiet_cmd_objcopy = OBJCOPY $@
cmd_objcopy = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS_$(@F)) $< $@
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
head-y := arch/ia64/kernel/head.o
libs-y += arch/ia64/lib/