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Vivek Goyal
ee6a8545a4 [PATCH] x86-64: Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3)
o MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with
  CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between 'free_initmem' (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and 'do_test_wp_bit'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeae) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc0135776) and 'reset_iter'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc013577d) and 'reset_iter'

o These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init
  section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special
  symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated
  for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if
  we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.

o Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
118c0ace1b [PATCH] x86-64: modpost add more symbols to whitelist pattern2
o MODPOST generates warning for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
  and serial console support is enabled.

o Serial console setup function, serial8250_console_setup(), is a non __init
  function and it calls functions which are of type __init().
  (uart_parse_options() and uart_set_options()). Assuming, setup will
  be called during init time, changing serial8250_console_setup() to __init.

o Adding one more pattern to modpost whitelist. Console drivers might
  have *_console structures containing references to setup functions which
  can be of __init type. Don't generate warnings for those.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'serial8250_console' (at offset 0xc05a33d8) and 'serial8250_reg'

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
acd19499e9 [PATCH] Fix section mismatch in parainstructions
Section .parainstructions should not warn about section mismatches.

WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x8)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:47 -08:00
Rusty Russell
139ec7c416 [PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt intercepts
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude,
are the interrupt manipulation ops.  These are obvious candidates for
patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it.

The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which
is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a
number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded).

Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to
use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make
the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the
allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check.

And:

Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.

And:

AK:  Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build

And:

AK: Fix compilation with defconfig

And:

^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and
__start_parainstructions.

And:

AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:08 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
21c4ff80cb [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in modules
This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves
adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.
It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it
would warn when used in .init.text).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-25 11:54:13 +10:00
Kirill Korotaev
c53ddacdc0 kbuild: fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved module symbols
At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules.  In case of unresolved
symbols modpost only prints warning.

IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of unresolved
symbols (at least in modules coming with kernel), since usually such errors
are left unnoticed, but kernel modules are broken.

- new option '-w' is added to modpost:
  if option is specified, modpost only warns about unresolved symbols

- modpost is called with '-w' for external modules in Makefile.modpost

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:14:30 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
93659af1ce kbuild: add missing return statement in modpost.c:secref_whitelist()
Noticed by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:01:49 +02:00
Magnus Damm
9e157a5aa8 kbuild: ignore references from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text"
The modpost code is extended to ignore references
from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text".

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
2006-09-25 09:01:49 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
c96fca2137 kbuild: warn when a moduled uses a symbol marked UNUSED
We now have infrastructure in place to mark an EXPORTed symbol
as unused. So the natural next step is to warn during buildtime when
a module uses a symbol marked UNUSED.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-07-01 11:44:23 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
534b89a9f6 kbuild: fix segv in modpost
Parsing an old Modules.symvers file casued modpost to SEGV.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-07-01 10:10:19 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
6803dc0ea8 kbuild: replace abort() with exit(1)
We have had no use of the coredump file for a long time.
So just exit(1) and avoid coredumping.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-24 23:46:54 +02:00
Al Viro
468d949401 kbuild: kill some false positives from modpost
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-24 23:14:05 +02:00
Laurent Riffard
9ac545b0f7 kbuild: fix module.symvers parsing in modpost
read_dump didn't split lines between module name and export type.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-16 23:45:45 +02:00
Andrew Morton
6449bd621b kbuild: modpost build fix
scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function `check_license':
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1094: parse error before `const'
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: `basename' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-10 07:58:14 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
b817f6feff kbuild: check license compatibility when building modules
Modules that uses GPL symbols can no longer be build with kbuild,
the build will fail during the modpost step.
When a GPL-incompatible module uses a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE symbol
then warn during modpost so author are actually notified.

The actual license compatibility check is shared with the kernel
to make sure it is in sync.

Patch originally from: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> and
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-09 21:53:55 +02:00
Ram Pai
bd5cbcedf4 kbuild: export-type enhancement to modpost.c
This patch provides the ability to identify the export-type of each
exported symbols in Module.symvers.

NOTE: It updates the Module.symvers file with the additional
information as shown below.

0x0f8b92af      platform_device_add_resources   vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
0xcf7efb2a      ethtool_op_set_tx_csum          vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avantika Mathur <mathur@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-09 20:33:10 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
909252d279 kbuild: fix false section mismatch with ARCH=um build
Ignoring references to .init.text, .exit.text from the .plt section brought
the false positives down to two warnings for a defconfig build of ARCH=um
on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-08 20:37:30 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
35899c5751 kbuild: ignore smp_locks section warnings from init/exit code
Add ".smp_locks" section to whitelist as being safe from
init and exit sections.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-08 20:20:23 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
eae07ac607 [PATCH] kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
Here is an updated r_info layout fix.  Please apply "check SHT_REL
sections" patch before this.

64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
2c1a51f39d [PATCH] kbuild: check SHT_REL sections
I found that modpost can not detect section mismatch on mips and i386.  On
mips64, the modpost (with r_info layout fix) can detect it.  The current
modpst only checks SHT_RELA section but I suppose SHT_REL section should be
checked also.  This patch does not contain r_info layout fix.  I'll post an
updated r_info layout fix on next mail.

Check SHT_REL sections as like as SHT_RELA sections to detect section
mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
601e7f024e Revert "kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel"
This reverts commit c8d8b837eb, which
caused problems for the x86 build. Quoth Sam:

  "It was discussed on mips list but apparently the fix was bogus.  I
   will not have time to look into it so mips can carry this local fix
   until we get a proper fix in mainline."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-08 13:38:42 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
72ee59b579 kbuild modpost - relax driver data name
Relax driver data name from *_driver to *driver.
This fixes the 26 section mismatch warnings in drivers/ide/pci.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-30 23:52:31 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
c8d8b837eb kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-30 23:36:48 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
5ecdd0f67c kbuild: fix false section mismatch warnings
Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> pointed out a
number of false positives where we referenced variables
from a _driver variable.
Fix it by check for that pattern and ignore it.

Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> pointed out a similar
set of warnings for a number of scsi drivers.
In scsi world they misname their variables *_template or
*_sht so add these to list of variables that may have references
to .init.text with no warning.

Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> also pointed out a scsi driver
with many references to .exit.text from .rodata. This is compiler
generated references and we already ignore these for .init.text, so
ignore them for .exit.text also.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-15 00:35:22 +02:00
Eric Sesterhenn
eaaae38c1a kbuild: fix NULL dereference in scripts/mod/modpost.c
before is NULL in this case, concluding from the surrounding code
it seems that after is the right one to use.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-11 13:37:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2e1ca21d46 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
  kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
  kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
  kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
  Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
  kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
  kbuild: clean-up genksyms
  kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
  kbuild: fix genksyms build error
  kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
  kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
  kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
  kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
  kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
  kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
  kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
  kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
  kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
  kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
  kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
  kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
  ...

Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
7670f023aa [PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpost
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if
used with long filepaths.
The error looked like:
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size:
+0x0809f588 ***
> [...]

Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time.
Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the
glibc detected bug above.  Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri
Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Luke Yang
f7b05e64bd kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
The scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c uses hardcoded "__crc_" prefix for
crc symbols in kernel and modules. The prefix should be replaced by
"MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##__crc_" otherwise there will be warnings when
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX is not NULL.

I am sorry my last patch for this issue is actually wrong. I revert
it in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-08 18:33:16 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
7b75b13cda kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
Warning now looks like this:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux

Which gives much better hint how to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 13:48:58 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
43c74d1795 kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
When searching for symbols the only check performed was if
offset equals st_value. Adding an additional check to see if st_name
points t a valid name made us sort out a few more false positives and
let us report more correct names in warnings.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 12:02:46 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
e835a39c1c kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
Parameters to strstr() was reversed.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 11:34:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
9209aed072 kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
Building an allmodconfig kernel for ppc64 revealed a number of false
positives - originally reported by Andrew Morton.
This patch removes most if not all false positives for ppc64:

Section .opd
The .opd section contains function descriptors at least for ppc64.
So ignore it for .init.text (was ignored for .exit.text).
See description of function descriptors here:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.html

Section .toc1
ppc64 places some static variables in .toc1 - ignore the.

Section __bug_tabe
BUG() and friends uses __bug_table. Ignore warnings from that section.

Module parameters are placed in .data.rel for ppc64, for adjust pattern to
match on section named .data*

Tested with gcc: 3.4.0 and binutils 2.15.90.0.3

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 00:16:26 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
62070fa42c kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-03 16:46:04 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
4c8fbca583 kbuild: whitelist false section mismatch warnings
In several cases the section mismatch check triggered false warnings.
Following patch introduce a whitelist to 'false positives' are not warned of.
Two types of patterns are recognised:
1) Typical case when a module parameter is _initdata
2) When a function pointer is assigned to a driver structure

In both patterns we rely on the actual name of the variable assigned

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-26 22:18:11 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
382168f479 kbuild: Add copyright to modpost.c
It seems popular to protect your work with copyright, so I decided to do
so for modpost which I patch a great deal atm.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-26 20:11:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
6e10133fa4 kbuild: do not warn when unwind sections references .init/.exit sections
Andrew Morton reported a number of false positives for ia64 - like these:
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind.init.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .IA_64.unwind.exit.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind after '' (at offset 0x1e8)

They are all false positives - or at least the .c code looks OK.
It is not known why sometimes a section name is appended and sometimes not.

Fix is to accept references from all sections that includes "unwind." in the name.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-22 21:24:50 +01:00
akpm@osdl.org
fededcd2af kbuild: fix modpost compile with older gcc
The kernel now requires that CC be 3.1.0 or higher.  But we shouldn't place
that requirement upon HOSTCC unless we really need to.  Fixes my ia64 problem.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-22 20:23:51 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
93684d3b80 kbuild: include symbol names in section mismatch warnings
Try to look up the symbol that is referenced. Include the symbol
name in the warning message.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 11:53:35 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
8ea80ca4f5 kbuild: fix segfault in modpost
Do not try to look up section name until we know it is not a special
section. Otherwise we will address outside legal space and segfault.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:56:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
b39927cf4c kbuild: check for section mismatch during modpost stage
Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.

.init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
.exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.

The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
so result is not 1:1.
All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.

Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:20 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
8e70c45887 kbuild: warn about duplicate exported symbols
In modpost introduce a check for symbols exported twice.
This check caught only one victim (inet_bind_bucket_create) for
which a patch is already sent to netdev.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
040fcc819a kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules
With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain
symbol information from a second external module when a
external module is build.
The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but
that may be impractical in certain cases.
With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one
external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available
for another external module.

Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
5c3ead8c72 kbuild: apply CodingStyle to modpost.c
Just some light CodingStyle updates - no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
cb80514d9c kbuild: use warn()/fatal() consistent in modpost
modpost.c provides warn() and fatal() - so use them all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Ustyugov Roman
f83b5e323f kbuild: set correct KBUILD_MODNAME when using well known kernel symbols as module names
This patch fixes a problem when we use well known kernel symbols as module
names.

For example, if module source name is current.c, idle_stack.c or etc.,
we have a bad KBUILD_MODNAME value.
For example, KBUILD_MODNAME will be "get_current()" instead of "current", or
"(init_thread_union.stack)" instead of "idle_task".

The trick is to define a stringify macro on the commandline - named
KBUILD_STR for namespace reasons - and then to stringify the module
name.

There are a few uses of KBUILD_MODNAME throughout the tree but the usage
is for debug and will not be harmed by this change so left untouched for now.

While at it KBUILD_BASENAME was changed too. Any spinlock usage in the
unix module would have created wrong section names without it.
Usage in spinlock.h fixed so it no longer stringify KBUILD_BASENAME.

Original patch from Ustyogov Roman - all bugs introduced by me.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-12-26 00:33:41 +01:00
Luke Yang
9572b28faf kbuild: Fix crc-error warning on modules
This is the patch for the following issue:

 In include/linux/module.h, "__crc_" and "__ksymtab_" are hard
coded to be the   prefix for some kinds of symbols (CRC symbol and
ksymtab section). But in script /mod/modpost.c,
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##"__crc_" is used as the prefix to search CRC
symbols. So if an architecture (such as h8300 or Blackfin) defines
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX as not NULL ("_"), modpost will always warn about
"no invalid crc".
  And it is the same with KSYMTAB_PFX.

Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-12-25 21:18:11 +01:00
Al Viro
7caaeabb17 [SPARC]: Fix dot-symbol exporting for good.
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Instead of playing all of these hand-coded assembler aliasing games,
just translate symbol names in the name space ".sym" to "_Sym" at
module load time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-11 20:14:07 -07:00
Ben Colline
8d5290149e [SPARC]: Deal with glibc changing macro names in modpost.c
GLIBC 2.3.4 and later changed the STT_REGISTER macro to
STT_SPARC_REGISTER, so we need to cope with that somehow.

Original patch from fabbione, reposted by Ben Collins.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-19 13:44:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00