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kbuild: Leave objtool binary around with 'make clean'

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The difference between 'make clean' and 'make mrproper' is documented in
'make help' as:

  clean     - Remove most generated files but keep the config and
              enough build support to build external modules
  mrproper  - Remove all generated files + config + various backup files

After commit 68b4fe32d7 ("kbuild: Add objtool to top-level clean
target"), running 'make clean' then attempting to build an external
module with the resulting build directory fails with

  $ make ARCH=x86_64 O=build clean

  $ make -C build M=... MO=...
  ...
  /bin/sh: line 1: .../build/tools/objtool/objtool: No such file or directory

as 'make clean' removes the objtool binary.

Split the objtool clean target into mrproper and clean like Kbuild does
and remove all generated artifacts with 'make clean' except for the
objtool binary, which is removed with 'make mrproper'. To avoid a small
race when running the objtool clean target through both objtool_mrproper
and objtool_clean when running 'make mrproper', modify objtool's clean
up find command to avoid using find's '-delete' command by piping the
files into 'xargs rm -f' like the rest of Kbuild does.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 68b4fe32d7 ("kbuild: Add objtool to top-level clean target")
Reported-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20260225112633.6123-1-msuchanek@suse.de/
Reported-by: Rainer Fiebig <jrf@mailbox.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/62d12399-76e5-3d40-126a-7490b4795b17@mailbox.org/
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227-avoid-objtool-binary-removal-clean-v1-1-122f3e55eae9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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Nathan Chancellor 2026-02-27 22:40:48 -07:00
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Makefile
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@ -1497,13 +1497,13 @@ ifneq ($(wildcard $(resolve_btfids_O)),)
$(Q)$(MAKE) -sC $(srctree)/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids O=$(resolve_btfids_O) clean
endif
PHONY += objtool_clean
PHONY += objtool_clean objtool_mrproper
objtool_O = $(abspath $(objtree))/tools/objtool
objtool_clean:
objtool_clean objtool_mrproper:
ifneq ($(wildcard $(objtool_O)),)
$(Q)$(MAKE) -sC $(abs_srctree)/tools/objtool O=$(objtool_O) srctree=$(abs_srctree) clean
$(Q)$(MAKE) -sC $(abs_srctree)/tools/objtool O=$(objtool_O) srctree=$(abs_srctree) $(patsubst objtool_%,%,$@)
endif
tools/: FORCE
@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ PHONY += $(mrproper-dirs) mrproper
$(mrproper-dirs):
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(patsubst _mrproper_%,%,$@)
mrproper: clean $(mrproper-dirs)
mrproper: clean objtool_mrproper $(mrproper-dirs)
$(call cmd,rmfiles)
@find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
\( -name '*.rmeta' \) \

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tools/objtool/Makefile
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@ -142,13 +142,15 @@ $(LIBSUBCMD)-clean:
$(Q)$(RM) -r -- $(LIBSUBCMD_OUTPUT)
clean: $(LIBSUBCMD)-clean
$(call QUIET_CLEAN, objtool) $(RM) $(OBJTOOL)
$(Q)find $(OUTPUT) -name '*.o' -delete -o -name '\.*.cmd' -delete -o -name '\.*.d' -delete
$(Q)find $(OUTPUT) \( -name '*.o' -o -name '\.*.cmd' -o -name '\.*.d' \) -type f -print | xargs $(RM)
$(Q)$(RM) $(OUTPUT)arch/x86/lib/cpu-feature-names.c $(OUTPUT)fixdep
$(Q)$(RM) $(OUTPUT)arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c $(OUTPUT)fixdep
$(Q)$(RM) -- $(OUTPUT)FEATURE-DUMP.objtool
$(Q)$(RM) -r -- $(OUTPUT)feature
mrproper: clean
$(call QUIET_CLEAN, objtool) $(RM) $(OBJTOOL)
FORCE:
.PHONY: clean FORCE
.PHONY: clean mrproper FORCE