kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion

When CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, Kbuild recursively traverses
the directory tree to determine which EXPORT_SYMBOL to trim. If an
EXPORT_SYMBOL turns out to be unused by anyone, Kbuild begins the
second traverse, where some source files are recompiled with their
EXPORT_SYMBOL() tuned into a no-op.

Linus stated negative opinions about this slowness in commits:

 - 5cf0fd591f2e ("Kbuild: disable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option")
 - a555bdd0c58c ("Kbuild: enable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS again, with some guarding")

We can do this better now. The final data structures of EXPORT_SYMBOL
are generated by the modpost stage, so modpost can selectively emit
KSYMTAB entries that are really used by modules.

Commit f73edc8951b2 ("kbuild: unify two modpost invocations") is another
ground-work to do this in a one-pass algorithm. With the list of modules,
modpost sets sym->used if it is used by a module. modpost emits KSYMTAB
only for symbols with sym->used==true.

BTW, Nicolas explained why the trimming was implemented with recursion:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/2o2rpn97-79nq-p7s2-nq5-8p83391473r@syhkavp.arg/

Actually, we never achieved that level of optimization where the chain
reaction of trimming comes into play because:

 - CONFIG_LTO_CLANG cannot remove any unused symbols
 - CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is enabled only for vmlinux,
   but not modules

If deeper trimming is required, we need to revisit this, but I guess
that is unlikely to happen.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 73 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh b/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f1b5ac818411..000000000000
--- a/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-
-# Script to update include/generated/autoksyms.h and dependency files
-#
-# Copyright:	(C) 2016  Linaro Limited
-# Created by:	Nicolas Pitre, January 2016
-#
-
-# Update the include/generated/autoksyms.h file.
-#
-# For each symbol being added or removed, the corresponding dependency
-# file's timestamp is updated to force a rebuild of the affected source
-# file. All arguments passed to this script are assumed to be a command
-# to be exec'd to trigger a rebuild of those files.
-
-set -e
-
-cur_ksyms_file="include/generated/autoksyms.h"
-new_ksyms_file="include/generated/autoksyms.h.tmpnew"
-
-info() {
-	if [ "$quiet" != "silent_" ]; then
-		printf "  %-7s %s\n" "$1" "$2"
-	fi
-}
-
-info "CHK" "$cur_ksyms_file"
-
-# Use "make V=1" to debug this script.
-case "$KBUILD_VERBOSE" in
-*1*)
-	set -x
-	;;
-esac
-
-# Generate a new symbol list file
-$CONFIG_SHELL $srctree/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh --modorder "$new_ksyms_file"
-
-# Extract changes between old and new list and touch corresponding
-# dependency files.
-changed=$(
-count=0
-sort "$cur_ksyms_file" "$new_ksyms_file" | uniq -u |
-sed -n 's/^#define __KSYM_\(.*\) 1/\1/p' |
-while read sympath; do
-	if [ -z "$sympath" ]; then continue; fi
-	depfile="include/ksym/${sympath}"
-	mkdir -p "$(dirname "$depfile")"
-	touch "$depfile"
-	# Filesystems with coarse time precision may create timestamps
-	# equal to the one from a file that was very recently built and that
-	# needs to be rebuild. Let's guard against that by making sure our
-	# dep files are always newer than the first file we created here.
-	while [ ! "$depfile" -nt "$new_ksyms_file" ]; do
-		touch "$depfile"
-	done
-	echo $((count += 1))
-done | tail -1 )
-changed=${changed:-0}
-
-if [ $changed -gt 0 ]; then
-	# Replace the old list with tne new one
-	old=$(grep -c "^#define __KSYM_" "$cur_ksyms_file" || true)
-	new=$(grep -c "^#define __KSYM_" "$new_ksyms_file" || true)
-	info "KSYMS" "symbols: before=$old, after=$new, changed=$changed"
-	info "UPD" "$cur_ksyms_file"
-	mv -f "$new_ksyms_file" "$cur_ksyms_file"
-	# Then trigger a rebuild of affected source files
-	exec $@
-else
-	rm -f "$new_ksyms_file"
-fi