kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y
Kbuild supports not only obj-y but also lib-y to list objects linked to vmlinux. The difference between them is that all the objects from obj-y are forcibly linked to vmlinux, whereas the objects from lib-y are linked as needed; if there is no user of a lib-y object, it is not linked. lib-y is intended to list utility functions that may be called from all over the place (and may be unused at all), but it is a problem for EXPORT_SYMBOL(). Even if there is no call-site in the vmlinux, we need to keep exported symbols for the use from loadable modules. Commit 7f2084fa ("[kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably") worked around it by linking a dummy object, lib-ksyms.o, which contains references to all the symbols exported from lib.a in that directory. It uses the linker script command, EXTERN. Unfortunately, the meaning of EXTERN of ld.lld is different from that of ld.bfd. Therefore, this does not work with LD=ld.lld (CBL iss...
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