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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:39:09 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] asmlinkage, module: Make ksymtab and kcrctab symbols and __this_module __visible

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
>
> Make the ksymtab symbols for EXPORT_SYMBOL visible.
> This prevents the LTO compiler from adding a .NUMBER prefix,
> which avoids various problems in later export processing.

Applied, thanks.

Cheers,
Rusty.

> Cc: rusty@...tcorp.com.au
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/export.h | 4 ++--
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c  | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h
> index 412cd50..3f2793d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/export.h
> +++ b/include/linux/export.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
>  /* Mark the CRC weak since genksyms apparently decides not to
>   * generate a checksums for some symbols */
>  #define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec)					\
> -	extern void *__crc_##sym __attribute__((weak));		\
> +	extern __visible void *__crc_##sym __attribute__((weak));		\
>  	static const unsigned long __kcrctab_##sym		\
>  	__used							\
>  	__attribute__((section("___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym), unused))	\
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
>  	static const char __kstrtab_##sym[]			\
>  	__attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \
>  	= VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(sym);				\
> -	static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym	\
> +	__visible const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym	\
>  	__used							\
>  	__attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), unused))	\
>  	= { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 8247979..0971bac 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
>  	buf_printf(b, "\n");
>  	buf_printf(b, "MODULE_INFO(vermagic, VERMAGIC_STRING);\n");
>  	buf_printf(b, "\n");
> -	buf_printf(b, "struct module __this_module\n");
> +	buf_printf(b, "__visible struct module __this_module\n");
>  	buf_printf(b, "__attribute__((section(\".gnu.linkonce.this_module\"))) = {\n");
>  	buf_printf(b, "\t.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,\n");
>  	if (mod->has_init)
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
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