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kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS

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include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_*
as a placeholder.

Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be
used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends
on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset
to the reference of CRC.

It is time to get rid of this complexity.

Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs,
it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules.

Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of
symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c
files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before,
*.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal.

No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the
same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not.
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed.

Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in
objects, but this step is unneeded too.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
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Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-13 20:39:22 +09:00
parent f292d875d0
commit 7b4537199a
15 changed files with 108 additions and 96 deletions
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include/linux/export.h
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@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@
* hackers place grumpy comments in header files.
*/
/*
* This comment block is used by fixdep. Please do not remove.
*
* When CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is changed from n to y, all source files having
* EXPORT_SYMBOL variants must be re-compiled because genksyms is run as a
* side effect of the *.o build rule.
*/
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#ifdef MODULE
extern struct module __this_module;
@@ -19,26 +27,6 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
#define THIS_MODULE ((struct module *)0)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
/* Mark the CRC weak since genksyms apparently decides not to
* generate a checksums for some symbols */
#if defined(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS)
#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
asm(" .section \"___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym "\", \"a\" \n" \
" .weak __crc_" #sym " \n" \
" .long __crc_" #sym " - . \n" \
" .previous \n")
#else
#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
asm(" .section \"___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym "\", \"a\" \n" \
" .weak __crc_" #sym " \n" \
" .long __crc_" #sym " \n" \
" .previous \n")
#endif
#else
#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
#include <linux/compiler.h>
/*
@@ -85,7 +73,6 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
/*
* For every exported symbol, do the following:
*
* - If applicable, place a CRC entry in the __kcrctab section.
* - Put the name of the symbol and namespace (empty string "" for none) in
* __ksymtab_strings.
* - Place a struct kernel_symbol entry in the __ksymtab section.
@@ -98,7 +85,6 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
extern typeof(sym) sym; \
extern const char __kstrtab_##sym[]; \
extern const char __kstrtabns_##sym[]; \
__CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec); \
asm(" .section \"__ksymtab_strings\",\"aMS\",%progbits,1 \n" \
"__kstrtab_" #sym ": \n" \
" .asciz \"" #sym "\" \n" \