kbuild: remove head-y syntax

Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux.
Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry
point.

A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script.
Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section,
which is placed before the normal ".text" section.

I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system
perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code
placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner.

I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is
a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/Makefile b/arch/sparc/Makefile
index fe58a410b4ce..a4ea5b05f288 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sparc/Makefile
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ endif
 
 endif
 
-head-y                 := arch/sparc/kernel/head_$(BITS).o
-
 libs-y                 += arch/sparc/prom/
 libs-y                 += arch/sparc/lib/