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

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Message-ID: <aNOP4NpaEzIFC7tz@levanger>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:29:52 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
 vmlinux.unstripped

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:05:47AM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> 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(-)
> 

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>

-- 
Nicolas