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, 30 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh b/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 8ee533f33659..000000000000
--- a/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-set -e
-
-# List of exported symbols
-#
-# If the object has no symbol, $NM warns 'no symbols'.
-# Suppress the stderr.
-# TODO:
-#   Use -q instead of 2>/dev/null when we upgrade the minimum version of
-#   binutils to 2.37, llvm to 13.0.0.
-ksyms=$($NM $1 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*__ksym_marker_\(.*\)/\1/p')
-
-if [ -z "$ksyms" ]; then
-	exit 0
-fi
-
-echo
-echo "ksymdeps_$1 := \\"
-
-for s in $ksyms
-do
-	printf '    $(wildcard include/ksym/%s) \\\n' "$s"
-done
-
-echo
-echo "$1: \$(ksymdeps_$1)"
-echo
-echo "\$(ksymdeps_$1):"