This patch series provides the option to omit exported symbols from
the kernel and modules that are never referenced by any of the selected
modules in the current kernel configuration.
The original cover letter with lots of test results can be found here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/813
A git branch with those patches is also available here:
http://git.linaro.org/people/nicolas.pitre/linux.git autoksyms
Please consider for merging.
Changes from v2:
- Generating the build dependencies by parsing the source with fixdep
turned out to be unreliable due to all the EXPORT_SYMBOL() variants,
and especially their use within macros where the actual symbol name
is known only after running the preprocessor. This list of symbol names
is now obtained from the preprocessor directly, fixing allmodconfig
builds.
Changes from v1:
- Replaced "exp" that doesn't convey the right meaning as noted by
Sam Ravnborg. The "ksym" identifier is actually what the kernel
already uses for this. Therefore:
- CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS --> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
- include/generated/expsyms.h --> include/generated/autoksyms.h
- #define __EXPSYM_* --> #define __KSYM_*
- Some sed regexp improvements as suggested by Al Viro.
- Renamed vmlinux_recursive target to autoksyms_recursive.
- Accept EXPORT_SYMBOL variants with a prefix, e.g. ACPI_EXPORT_SYMBOL.
- Minor commit log clarifications.
- Added Rusty's ACK.
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