linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped

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Message-ID: <aaf67c07447215463300fccaa758904bac42f992.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:05:47 +0200
From: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v8 3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>

Keep the .modinfo section during linking, but strip it from the final
vmlinux.

Adjust scripts/mksysmap to exclude modinfo symbols from kallsyms.

This change will allow the next commit to extract the .modinfo section
from the vmlinux.unstripped intermediate.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +-
 scripts/Makefile.vmlinux          | 7 +++++--
 scripts/mksysmap                  | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index ae2d2359b79e9..cfa63860dfd4c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -831,6 +831,7 @@ defined(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) || defined(CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG)
 
 /* Required sections not related to debugging. */
 #define ELF_DETAILS							\
+		.modinfo : { *(.modinfo) }				\
 		.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }				\
 		.symtab 0 : { *(.symtab) }				\
 		.strtab 0 : { *(.strtab) }				\
@@ -1044,7 +1045,6 @@ defined(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) || defined(CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG)
 	*(.discard.*)							\
 	*(.export_symbol)						\
 	*(.no_trim_symbol)						\
-	*(.modinfo)							\
 	/* ld.bfd warns about .gnu.version* even when not emitted */	\
 	*(.gnu.version*)						\
 
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index 4f2d4c3fb7372..70856dab0f541 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -86,11 +86,14 @@ endif
 # vmlinux
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-remove-section-y                                   :=
+remove-section-y                                   := .modinfo
 remove-section-$(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS) += '.rel*'
 
+# To avoid warnings: "empty loadable segment detected at ..." from GNU objcopy,
+# it is necessary to remove the PT_LOAD flag from the segment.
 quiet_cmd_strip_relocs = OBJCOPY $@
-      cmd_strip_relocs = $(OBJCOPY) $(addprefix --remove-section=,$(remove-section-y)) $< $@
+      cmd_strip_relocs = $(OBJCOPY) $(patsubst %,--set-section-flags %=noload,$(remove-section-y)) $< $@; \
+                         $(OBJCOPY) $(addprefix --remove-section=,$(remove-section-y)) $@
 
 targets += vmlinux
 vmlinux: vmlinux.unstripped FORCE
diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap
index 3accbdb269ac7..a607a0059d119 100755
--- a/scripts/mksysmap
+++ b/scripts/mksysmap
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@
 / _SDA_BASE_$/d
 / _SDA2_BASE_$/d
 
+# MODULE_INFO()
+/ __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo[0-9]*$/d
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Ignored patterns
 #  (symbols that contain the pattern are ignored)
-- 
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