Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add build_{menu,n,g,x}config targets for compile-testing Kconfig

 - fix and improve recursive dependency detection in Kconfig

 - fix parallel building of menuconfig/nconfig

 - fix syntax error in clang-version.sh

 - suppress distracting log from syncconfig

 - remove obsolete "rpm" target

 - remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_STR) macro entirely

 - fix microblaze build with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

 - move compiler test for dead code/data elimination to Kconfig

 - rename well-known LDFLAGS variable to KBUILD_LDFLAGS

 - misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  kbuild: pass LDFLAGS to recordmcount.pl
  kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig
  initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale <linux/export.h> include
  export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR()
  Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to detect in zalloc-simple.cocci
  kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents independent of locale
  kbuild: remove "rpm" target, which is alias of "rpm-pkg"
  kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
  kconfig: suppress "configuration written to .config" for syncconfig
  kconfig: fix "Can't open ..." in parallel build
  kbuild: Add a space after `!` to prevent parsing as file pattern
  scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results
  kconfig: improve the recursive dependency report
  kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'
  kconfig: error out when seeing recursive dependency
  kconfig: add build-only configurator targets
  scripts/dtc: consolidate include path options in Makefile

include/linux/export.h

@@ -10,13 +10,6 @@
  * hackers place grumpy comments in header files.
  */
 
-#define __VMLINUX_SYMBOL(x) x
-#define __VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(x) #x
-
-/* Indirect, so macros are expanded before pasting. */
-#define VMLINUX_SYMBOL(x) __VMLINUX_SYMBOL(x)
-#define VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(x) __VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(x)
-
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #ifdef MODULE
 extern struct module __this_module;