Re: [PATCH v10 06/11] modpost: Add -b option for emitting built-in aliases

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On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 02:00:25PM -0500, Allen Webb wrote:
> This adds a command line option for writing the match-id based 

Can you explain in your commit log and in code what is "match-id" ?
Do we not have this documeted anywhere perhaps where we can point to
what it is?

> built-in
> aliases to a file. A future patch extends file2alias.c to support this
> command.
> 
> The -b option accepts the output path as a parameter and requires
> vmlinuz.o to be one of the input files for the aliases to be found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allen Webb <allenwebb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  scripts/mod/modpost.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index efff8078e395..2e452aec0fc6 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -2173,6 +2173,19 @@ static void write_if_changed(struct buffer *b, const char *fname)
>  	write_buf(b, fname);
>  }
>  
> +/* Write the builtin aliases to the specified file. */
> +static void write_builtin(const char *fname)
> +{
> +	struct buffer buf = { };
> +	struct module *mod;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list)
> +		buf_write(&buf, mod->modalias_buf.p, mod->modalias_buf.pos);
> +
> +	write_if_changed(&buf, fname);
> +	free(buf.p);
> +}
> +
>  static void write_vmlinux_export_c_file(struct module *mod)
>  {
>  	struct buffer buf = { };
> @@ -2329,13 +2342,23 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  {
>  	struct module *mod;
>  	char *missing_namespace_deps = NULL;
> -	char *dump_write = NULL, *files_source = NULL;
> +	char *builtin_write = NULL, *dump_write = NULL, *files_source = NULL;
>  	int opt;
>  	LIST_HEAD(dump_lists);
>  	struct dump_list *dl, *dl2;
>  
> -	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "ei:mnT:o:awENd:")) != -1) {
> +	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "b:ei:mnT:o:awENd:")) != -1) {
>  		switch (opt) {
> +		case 'b':
> +			/*
> +			 * Writes the match-id based built-in module aliases to
> +			 * the specified path.
> +			 *
> +			 * vmlinuz.o needs to be one of the input files for the
> +			 * aliases to be found.
> +			 */
> +			builtin_write = optarg;
> +			break;
>  		case 'e':
>  			external_module = true;
>  			break;
> @@ -2398,6 +2421,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  			write_mod_c_file(mod);
>  	}
>  
> +	if (builtin_write)
> +		write_builtin(builtin_write);
> +
>  	if (missing_namespace_deps)
>  		write_namespace_deps_files(missing_namespace_deps);
>  
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.h b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
> index 34fe5fc0b02c..c55a6aeb46bf 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.h
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
> @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ struct module {
>  	bool has_init;
>  	bool has_cleanup;
>  	struct buffer dev_table_buf;
> +	struct buffer modalias_buf;
>  	char	     srcversion[25];
>  	// Missing namespace dependencies
>  	struct list_head missing_namespaces;
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 



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