linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/12] EXPORT

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Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:12:23 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm

Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Add asm-usable variants of EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.  This
> commit just adds the default implementation; most of the architectures
> can simply add export.h to asm/Kbuild and start using <asm/export.h>
> from assembler.  The area where the things might diverge from default
> is the alignment; normally it's 8 bytes on 64bit targets and 4 on
> 32bit ones, both for unsigned long and for struct kernel_symbol.
> 
> Unfortunately, amd64 and m68k are unusual - m68k aligns to 2 bytes
> (for both) and amd64 aligns struct kernel_symbol to 16 bytes.  For
> those we'll need to have asm/export.h overriding the constants used
> by generic version (KSYM_ALIGN and KCRC_ALIGN for kernel_symbol and
> unsigned long resp.) and including asm-generic/export.h.
> 
> And no, __alignof__ would not do the trick - on amd64 __alignof__
> of struct kernel_symbol is 8, not 16.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>