linux-kernel - RFC: killing ksyms.c

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Message-Id: <200808111606.44103.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:06:43 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: RFC: killing ksyms.c

I saw this conversation on IRC when I came back to my screen, and
managed to dig out an older patch of mine:

[19:03:13] <willy> at some point we really need to forbid that
[19:03:28] <willy> bit hard at this point with things like memcpy()
[19:04:36] <willy> could do it with a script of some kind and
           either a whitelist of filenames (arch/*/kernel/ksyms.c
           can export anything) or of functions (anywhere can
           EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy)).
[Sun Aug 10 2008] [19:07:35] <viro> I suspect that we really want
           to teach *.S how to do exports
[Sun Aug 10 2008] [19:07:58] <viro> and kill ksyms.c
[Sun Aug 10 2008] [19:12:47] <dwmw2_gone> if we do the -fwhole-program
           --combine thing we'll make it hard anyway

I compile-tested this on powerpc, 32 and 64 bit, and it should be usable as
an example for other architectures.
The idea is to provide an EXPORT_SYMBOL macro for assembly that
behaves in the same way as the C version, and then export every
symbol from the file that defines it.

I'm not sure if the macro I used is actually correct or portable across
all supported architectures, so I hope to get some insight about this
from linux-arch. It does not do genksyms versioned symbol generation
from assembly, but that should be fine since they tend to be really
stable.

	Arnd <><

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