Re: [PATCH 3/7] kbuild: generate struct kernel_symbol by modpost

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:34 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 7b4537199a4a ("kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing
> CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS") made the module versioning implementation
> arch-agnostic; now all the version CRCs are generated by modpost as C
> code whether the EXPORT_SYMBOL() is placed in *.c or *.S.
>
> Doing similar for the entire data structure of EXPORT_SYMBOL() makes
> further cleanups possible.
>
> This commit splits EXPORT_SYMBOL() compilation into two stages.
>
> When a source file is compiled, EXPORT_SYMBOL() is converted into a
> dummy symbol in the .discard.export_symbol section.
>
> For example,
>
>     EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
>     EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(bar, BAR_NAMESPACE);
>
> will be expanded into the following assembly code:
>
>     .section .discard.export_symbol
>     __export_symbol.foo:
>         .asciz ""
>     .previous
>
>     .section .discard.export_symbol
>     __export_symbol_gpl.bar:
>         .asciz "BAR_NAMESPACE"
>     .previous
>
> They are just markers to tell modpost the name, license, and namespace
> of the symbols. They will be dropped from the final vmlinux and modules
> because the section name starts with ".discard.".
>
> Then, modpost extracts all the information of EXPORT_SYMBOL() from the
> .discard.export_symbol section, then generates C code:
>
>     KSYMTAB_ENTRY(foo, "", "");
>     KSYMTAB_ENTRY(bar, "_gpl", "BAR_NAMESPACE");
>
> KSYMTAB_ENTRY() is expanded to struct kernel_symbol that will be linked
> to the vmlinux or a module.
>
> With this change, EXPORT_SYMBOL() works in the same way for *.c and *.S
> files, providing the following benefits.
>
> [1] Deprecate EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL()



Sorry, please let me take back this.

I completely missed how linkage for ia64 works.
I used inline assembly in C, so it would break ia64.

Please ignore this patch.








-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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