scripts/Makefile.modpost
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/Makefile.modpost
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/Makefile.modpost- Extension
.modpost- Size
- 4962 bytes
- Lines
- 158
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- scripts
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: exported/initcall integration point
- Status
- integration implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Exports symbols or registers init work; inspect boot/module ordering and who consumes the exported contract.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# ===========================================================================
# Module versions
# ===========================================================================
#
# Stage one of module building created the following:
# a) The individual .o files used for the module
# b) A <module>.o file which is the .o files above linked together
# c) A <module>.mod file, listing the name of the preliminary <module>.o file,
# plus all .o files
# d) modules.order, which lists all the modules
# Stage 2 is handled by this file and does the following
# 1) Find all modules listed in modules.order
# 2) modpost is then used to
# 3) create one <module>.mod.c file per module
# 4) create one Module.symvers file with CRC for all exported symbols
# Step 3 is used to place certain information in the module's ELF
# section, including information such as:
# Version magic (see include/linux/vermagic.h for full details)
# - Kernel release
# - SMP is CONFIG_SMP
# - PREEMPT is CONFIG_PREEMPT[_RT]
# - GCC Version
# Module info
# - Module version (MODULE_VERSION)
# - Module alias'es (MODULE_ALIAS)
# - Module license (MODULE_LICENSE)
# - See include/linux/module.h for more details
# Step 4 is solely used to allow module versioning in external modules,
# where the CRC of each module is retrieved from the Module.symvers file.
PHONY := __modpost
__modpost:
include $(objtree)/include/config/auto.conf
include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
MODPOST = $(objtree)/scripts/mod/modpost
modpost-args = \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES),-M) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m) \
$(if $(CONFIG_BASIC_MODVERSIONS),-b) \
$(if $(CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS),-x) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a) \
$(if $(CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY),,-E) \
$(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w) \
$(if $(KBUILD_NSDEPS),-d modules.nsdeps) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS)$(KBUILD_NSDEPS),-N) \
$(if $(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),-W) \
-o $@
modpost-deps := $(MODPOST)
# 'make -i -k' ignores compile errors, and builds as many modules as possible.
ifneq ($(findstring i,$(filter-out --%,$(MAKEFLAGS))),)
modpost-args += -n
endif
# Read out modules.order to pass in modpost.
# Otherwise, allmodconfig would fail with "Argument list too long".
ifdef KBUILD_MODULES
modpost-args += -T modules.order
modpost-deps += modules.order
endif
ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / scripts.
- Implementation status: integration implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.