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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/asm-generic/export.h, branch v6.0-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS</title>
<updated>2022-05-24T07:33:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T11:39:22+00:00</published>
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include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_*
as a placeholder.

Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be
used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends
on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset
to the reference of CRC.

It is time to get rid of this complexity.

Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs,
it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules.

Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of
symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c
files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before,
*.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal.

No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the
same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not.
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed.

Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in
objects, but this step is unneeded too.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
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include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_*
as a placeholder.

Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be
used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends
on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset
to the reference of CRC.

It is time to get rid of this complexity.

Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs,
it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules.

Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of
symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c
files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before,
*.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal.

No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the
same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not.
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed.

Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in
objects, but this step is unneeded too.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
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<entry>
<title>asm-generic: export: Stub EXPORT_SYMBOL with __DISABLE_EXPORTS</title>
<updated>2021-02-03T16:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Perret</name>
<email>qperret@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-03T14:19:30+00:00</published>
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It is currently possible to stub EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros in C code using
__DISABLE_EXPORTS, which is necessary to run in constrained environments
such as the EFI stub or the decompressor. But this currently doesn't
apply to exports from assembly, which can lead to somewhat confusing
situations.

Consolidate the __DISABLE_EXPORTS infrastructure by checking it from
asm-generic/export.h as well.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210203141931.615898-2-qperret@google.com
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It is currently possible to stub EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros in C code using
__DISABLE_EXPORTS, which is necessary to run in constrained environments
such as the EFI stub or the decompressor. But this currently doesn't
apply to exports from assembly, which can lead to somewhat confusing
situations.

Consolidate the __DISABLE_EXPORTS infrastructure by checking it from
asm-generic/export.h as well.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210203141931.615898-2-qperret@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>export.h: reduce __ksymtab_strings string duplication by using "MS" section flags</title>
<updated>2019-12-16T09:35:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jessica Yu</name>
<email>jeyu@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T11:35:59+00:00</published>
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Commit c3a6cf19e695 ("export: avoid code duplication in
include/linux/export.h") refactors export.h quite nicely, but introduces
a slight increase in memory usage due to using the empty string ""
instead of NULL to indicate that an exported symbol has no namespace. As
mentioned in that commit, this meant an increase of 1 byte per exported
symbol without a namespace. For example, if a kernel configuration has
about 10k exported symbols, this would mean that the size of
__ksymtab_strings would increase by roughly 10kB.

We can alleviate this situation by utilizing the SHF_MERGE and
SHF_STRING section flags. SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRING indicate to the linker
that the data in the section are null-terminated strings that can be
merged to eliminate duplication. More specifically, from the binutils
documentation - "for sections with both M and S, a string which is a
suffix of a larger string is considered a duplicate. Thus "def" will be
merged with "abcdef"; A reference to the first "def" will be changed to
a reference to "abcdef"+3". Thus, all the empty strings would be merged
as well as any strings that can be merged according to the cited method
above. For example, "memset" and "__memset" would be merged to just
"__memset" in __ksymtab_strings.

As of v5.4-rc5, the following statistics were gathered with x86
defconfig with approximately 10.7k exported symbols.

Size of __ksymtab_strings in vmlinux:
-------------------------------------
v5.4-rc5: 213834 bytes
v5.4-rc5 with commit c3a6cf19e695: 224455 bytes
v5.4-rc5 with this patch: 205759 bytes

So, we already see memory savings of ~8kB compared to vanilla -rc5 and
savings of nearly 18.7kB compared to -rc5 with commit c3a6cf19e695 on top.

Unfortunately, as of this writing, strings will not get deduplicated for
kernel modules, as ld does not do the deduplication for
SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRINGS sections for relocatable files (ld -r), which
kernel modules are. A patch for ld is currently being worked on to
hopefully allow for string deduplication in relocatable files in the
future.

Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit c3a6cf19e695 ("export: avoid code duplication in
include/linux/export.h") refactors export.h quite nicely, but introduces
a slight increase in memory usage due to using the empty string ""
instead of NULL to indicate that an exported symbol has no namespace. As
mentioned in that commit, this meant an increase of 1 byte per exported
symbol without a namespace. For example, if a kernel configuration has
about 10k exported symbols, this would mean that the size of
__ksymtab_strings would increase by roughly 10kB.

We can alleviate this situation by utilizing the SHF_MERGE and
SHF_STRING section flags. SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRING indicate to the linker
that the data in the section are null-terminated strings that can be
merged to eliminate duplication. More specifically, from the binutils
documentation - "for sections with both M and S, a string which is a
suffix of a larger string is considered a duplicate. Thus "def" will be
merged with "abcdef"; A reference to the first "def" will be changed to
a reference to "abcdef"+3". Thus, all the empty strings would be merged
as well as any strings that can be merged according to the cited method
above. For example, "memset" and "__memset" would be merged to just
"__memset" in __ksymtab_strings.

As of v5.4-rc5, the following statistics were gathered with x86
defconfig with approximately 10.7k exported symbols.

Size of __ksymtab_strings in vmlinux:
-------------------------------------
v5.4-rc5: 213834 bytes
v5.4-rc5 with commit c3a6cf19e695: 224455 bytes
v5.4-rc5 with this patch: 205759 bytes

So, we already see memory savings of ~8kB compared to vanilla -rc5 and
savings of nearly 18.7kB compared to -rc5 with commit c3a6cf19e695 on top.

Unfortunately, as of this writing, strings will not get deduplicated for
kernel modules, as ld does not do the deduplication for
SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRINGS sections for relocatable files (ld -r), which
kernel modules are. A patch for ld is currently being worked on to
hopefully allow for string deduplication in relocatable files in the
future.

Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'spdx-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx</title>
<updated>2019-12-03T22:20:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-03T22:20:21+00:00</published>
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Pull SPDX fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single SPDX fixup for 5.5-rc1

  It resolves an issue where we had missed a few .h files with the
  auto-tagging scripts because they had "GPL" text in strings within the
  file themselves. This single patch fixes up the issue and provides the
  proper SPDX tags at the top of them as needed.

  This patch has been in linux-next for many many weeks now with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'spdx-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to headers with no license
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Pull SPDX fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single SPDX fixup for 5.5-rc1

  It resolves an issue where we had missed a few .h files with the
  auto-tagging scripts because they had "GPL" text in strings within the
  file themselves. This single patch fixes up the issue and provides the
  proper SPDX tags at the top of them as needed.

  This patch has been in linux-next for many many weeks now with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'spdx-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to headers with no license
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to headers with no license</title>
<updated>2019-11-14T03:36:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T04:50:53+00:00</published>
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Commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
identifier to files with no license") took care of a lot of files
without any license information.

These headers were not processed by the tool perhaps because they
contain "GPL" in the code.

I do not see any license boilerplate in them, so they fall back to
GPL version 2 only, which is the project default.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191018045053.8424-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
identifier to files with no license") took care of a lot of files
without any license information.

These headers were not processed by the tool perhaps because they
contain "GPL" in the code.

I do not see any license boilerplate in them, so they fall back to
GPL version 2 only, which is the project default.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191018045053.8424-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic/export.h: remove unneeded __kcrctab_* symbols</title>
<updated>2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T04:31:48+00:00</published>
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EXPORT_SYMBOL from assembly code produces an unused symbol __kcrctab_*.

kcrctab is used as a section name (prefixed with three underscores),
but never used as a symbol.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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EXPORT_SYMBOL from assembly code produces an unused symbol __kcrctab_*.

kcrctab is used as a section name (prefixed with three underscores),
but never used as a symbol.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic/export.h: make __ksymtab_* local symbols</title>
<updated>2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T04:31:47+00:00</published>
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For EXPORT_SYMBOL from C files, &lt;linux/export.h&gt; defines __ksymtab_*
as local symbols.

For EXPORT_SYMBOL from assembly, in contrast, &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;
produces globally-visible __ksymtab_* symbols due to this .globl
directive.

I do not know why this must be global. It still works without this.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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For EXPORT_SYMBOL from C files, &lt;linux/export.h&gt; defines __ksymtab_*
as local symbols.

For EXPORT_SYMBOL from assembly, in contrast, &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;
produces globally-visible __ksymtab_* symbols due to this .globl
directive.

I do not know why this must be global. It still works without this.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: Remove leftover '#undef' from export header</title>
<updated>2019-09-12T13:29:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-11T23:00:18+00:00</published>
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Commit 7290d5809571 ("module: use relative references for __ksymtab
entries") converted the '__put' #define into an assembly macro in
asm-generic/export.h but forgot to remove the corresponding '#undef'.

Remove the leftover '#undef'.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 7290d5809571 ("module: use relative references for __ksymtab
entries") converted the '__put' #define into an assembly macro in
asm-generic/export.h but forgot to remove the corresponding '#undef'.

Remove the leftover '#undef'.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset</title>
<updated>2019-09-11T16:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-11T12:26:46+00:00</published>
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Commit 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
broke linking for arm64 defconfig:

  | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_setkey':
  | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_setkey+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol'
  | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_crypt':
  | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_crypt+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol'

This is because the dummy initialisation of the 'namespace_offset' field
in 'struct kernel_symbol' when using EXPORT_SYMBOL on architectures with
support for PREL32 locations uses an offset from an absolute address (0)
in an effort to trick 'offset_to_pointer' into behaving as a NOP,
allowing non-namespaced symbols to be treated in the same way as those
belonging to a namespace.

Unfortunately, place-relative relocations require a symbol reference
rather than an absolute value and, although x86 appears to get away with
this due to placing the kernel text at the top of the address space, it
almost certainly results in a runtime failure if the kernel is relocated
dynamically as a result of KASLR.

Rework 'namespace_offset' so that a value of 0, which cannot occur for a
valid namespaced symbol, indicates that the corresponding symbol does
not belong to a namespace.

Cc: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
broke linking for arm64 defconfig:

  | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_setkey':
  | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_setkey+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol'
  | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_crypt':
  | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_crypt+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol'

This is because the dummy initialisation of the 'namespace_offset' field
in 'struct kernel_symbol' when using EXPORT_SYMBOL on architectures with
support for PREL32 locations uses an offset from an absolute address (0)
in an effort to trick 'offset_to_pointer' into behaving as a NOP,
allowing non-namespaced symbols to be treated in the same way as those
belonging to a namespace.

Unfortunately, place-relative relocations require a symbol reference
rather than an absolute value and, although x86 appears to get away with
this due to placing the kernel text at the top of the address space, it
almost certainly results in a runtime failure if the kernel is relocated
dynamically as a result of KASLR.

Rework 'namespace_offset' so that a value of 0, which cannot occur for a
valid namespaced symbol, indicates that the corresponding symbol does
not belong to a namespace.

Cc: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: add support for symbol namespaces.</title>
<updated>2019-09-10T08:30:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>Matthias Maennich</name>
<email>maennich@google.com</email>
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<published>2019-09-06T10:32:27+00:00</published>
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The EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL() macros can be used to
export a symbol to a specific namespace.  There are no _GPL_FUTURE and
_UNUSED variants because these are currently unused, and I'm not sure
they are necessary.

I didn't add EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() for ASM exports; this patch sets the
namespace of ASM exports to NULL by default. In case of relative
references, it will be relocatable to NULL. If there's a need, this
should be pretty easy to add.

A module that wants to use a symbol exported to a namespace must add a
MODULE_IMPORT_NS() statement to their module code; otherwise, modpost
will complain when building the module, and the kernel module loader
will emit an error and fail when loading the module.

MODULE_IMPORT_NS() adds a modinfo tag 'import_ns' to the module. That
tag can be observed by the modinfo command, modpost and kernel/module.c
at the time of loading the module.

The ELF symbols are renamed to include the namespace with an asm label;
for example, symbol 'usb_stor_suspend' in namespace USB_STORAGE becomes
'usb_stor_suspend.USB_STORAGE'.  This allows modpost to do namespace
checking, without having to go through all the effort of parsing ELF and
relocation records just to get to the struct kernel_symbols.

On x86_64 I saw no difference in binary size (compression), but at
runtime this will require a word of memory per export to hold the
namespace. An alternative could be to store namespaced symbols in their
own section and use a separate 'struct namespaced_kernel_symbol' for
that section, at the cost of making the module loader more complex.

Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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The EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL() macros can be used to
export a symbol to a specific namespace.  There are no _GPL_FUTURE and
_UNUSED variants because these are currently unused, and I'm not sure
they are necessary.

I didn't add EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() for ASM exports; this patch sets the
namespace of ASM exports to NULL by default. In case of relative
references, it will be relocatable to NULL. If there's a need, this
should be pretty easy to add.

A module that wants to use a symbol exported to a namespace must add a
MODULE_IMPORT_NS() statement to their module code; otherwise, modpost
will complain when building the module, and the kernel module loader
will emit an error and fail when loading the module.

MODULE_IMPORT_NS() adds a modinfo tag 'import_ns' to the module. That
tag can be observed by the modinfo command, modpost and kernel/module.c
at the time of loading the module.

The ELF symbols are renamed to include the namespace with an asm label;
for example, symbol 'usb_stor_suspend' in namespace USB_STORAGE becomes
'usb_stor_suspend.USB_STORAGE'.  This allows modpost to do namespace
checking, without having to go through all the effort of parsing ELF and
relocation records just to get to the struct kernel_symbols.

On x86_64 I saw no difference in binary size (compression), but at
runtime this will require a word of memory per export to hold the
namespace. An alternative could be to store namespaced symbols in their
own section and use a separate 'struct namespaced_kernel_symbol' for
that section, at the cost of making the module loader more complex.

Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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