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Message-ID: <4AF01F18.8040807@tuffmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:16:24 +0000
From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
CC: greg@...ah.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, carmelo73@...il.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG
option
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 05:06, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in
>> .tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure
>> definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option
>> into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code.
>>
>> This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost
>> relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c.
>>
>
> this should also let us push VMLINUX_SYMBOL() out of
> arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S and into asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h ...
>
>
>> A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs,
>> showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save
>> for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key"
>> symbol in the kallsyms data).
>>
>
> when you get localized (static) namespace collisions, the linker
> automatically does that
>
>
>> --- a/init/Kconfig
>> +++ b/init/Kconfig
>> @@ -1171,6 +1171,17 @@ config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
>>
>> endif # MODULES
>>
>> +config HAVE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
>> + bool
>> + help
>> + Some arch toolchains use a `_' prefix for all user symbols.
>> + This option will be taken into account when loading modules.
>> +
>> +config SYMBOL_PREFIX
>> + string
>> + default "_" if HAVE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
>> + default ""
>>
>
> in practice, the symbol prefix is an underscore. but there is no
> technical limitation here -- the toolchain could use whatever prefix
> they wanted
>
> so if the Kconfig option was pushed to arch/*/Kconfig, we could drop
> HAVE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and let the arch declare the exact SYMBOL_PREFIX
> value itself
> -mike
>
I don't think that's possible.
#define VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_sym_) _##_sym_
I don't know any "unstringify" operation. So I can't convert a string
value of CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX to the unquoted underscore we neeed for
this macro. The same applies for the SYM() macro I use. Currently it
assumes the prefix is a single underscore:
#ifdef HAVE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
#define __SYM(sym) _##sym
#else
#define __SYM(sym) sym
#endif
If we positively want to keep the generality, I guess I should put
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in a header file of it's own. The disadvantage is
that it makes it inaccessible to host programs again, like modpost
(which currently hardcodes the list of affected architectures in
mk_elfconfig.c).
Personally I favour "look, a small cleanup!" against "who knows what
crazy things the next toolchain will do". Of course I'm open to being
outvoted by experience :).
Regards
Alan
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