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2014-01-16export: declare ksymtab symbolsJohannes Berg
sparse complains about any __ksymtab symbols with the following: warning: symbol '__ksymtab_...' was not declared. Should it be static? due to Andi's patch making it non-static. Mollify sparse by declaring the symbol extern, otherwise we get drowned in sparse warnings for anything that uses EXPORT_SYMBOL in the sources, making it easy to miss real warnings. Fixes: e0f244c63fc9 ("asmlinkage, module: Make ksymtab [...] __visible") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-10-29asmlinkage, module: Make ksymtab and kcrctab symbols and __this_module __visibleAndi Kleen
Make the ksymtab symbols for EXPORT_SYMBOL visible. This prevents the LTO compiler from adding a .NUMBER prefix, which avoids various problems in later export processing. Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-15CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.Rusty Russell
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string "_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to do so. Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set: 1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym) 3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7) 5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym) 6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version for pasting. (arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too). Let's solve this properly: 1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm. 3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(). 4) Make everyone use them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
2011-10-31module.h: split out the EXPORT_SYMBOL into export.hPaul Gortmaker
A lot of files pull in module.h when all they are really looking for is the basic EXPORT_SYMBOL functionality. The recent data from Ingo[1] shows that this is one of several instances that has a significant impact on compile times, and it should be targeted for factoring out (as done here). Note that several commonly used header files in include/* directly include <linux/module.h> themselves (some 34 of them!) The most commonly used ones of these will have to be made independent of module.h before the full benefit of this change can be realized. We also transition THIS_MODULE from module.h to export.h, since there are lots of files with subsystem structs that in turn will have a struct module *owner and only be doing: .owner = THIS_MODULE; and absolutely nothing else modular. So, we also want to have the THIS_MODULE definition present in the lightweight header. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/76 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>