user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/module.h, branch v3.10.81

CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.

2013-03-15T04:39:43Z

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 Reviewed-by: James Hogan Tested-by: James Hogan (metag)

module: constify within_module_*

2013-01-21T06:48:20Z

These helper functions just check a set intersection with a range, and don't actually modify struct module. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.

2013-01-12T02:57:05Z

You should never look at such a module, so it's excised from all paths which traverse the modules list. We add the state at the end, to avoid gratuitous ABI break (ksplice). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: signature checking hook

2012-10-10T09:30:55Z

We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module (which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway). There's both a config option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key. If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the key. (Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells ) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: move __module_get and try_module_get() out of line.

2012-03-26T02:20:52Z

With the preempt, tracepoint and everything, it's getting a bit chubby. For an Ubuntu-based config: Before: $ size -t `find * -name '*.ko'` | grep TOTAL 56199906 3870760 1606616 61677282 3ad1ee2 (TOTALS) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 8509342 850368 3358720 12718430 c2115e vmlinux After: $ size -t `find * -name '*.ko'` | grep TOTAL 56183760 3867892 1606616 61658268 3acd49c (TOTALS) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 8501842 849088 3358720 12709650 c1ef12 vmlinux Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (made all out-of-line)

module: struct module_ref should contains long fields

2012-01-12T23:02:14Z

module_ref contains two "unsigned int" fields. Thats now too small, since some machines can open more than 2^32 files. Check commit 518de9b39e8 (fs: allow for more than 2^31 files) for reference. We can add an aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long)) attribute to force alloc_percpu() allocating module_ref areas in single cache lines. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet CC: Rusty Russell CC: Tejun Heo CC: Robin Holt CC: David Miller Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module.h: relocate MODULE_PARM_DESC into moduleparam.h

2011-10-31T13:20:11Z

There are files which use module_param and MODULE_PARM_DESC back to back. They only include moduleparam.h which makes sense, but the implicit presence of module.h everywhere hid the fact that MODULE_PARM_DESC wasn't in moduleparam.h at all. Relocate the macro to moduleparam.h so that the moduleparam infrastructure can be used independently of module.h Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

module.h: split out the EXPORT_SYMBOL into export.h

2011-10-31T13:20:11Z

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 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

Tracepoint: Dissociate from module mutex

2011-08-11T00:38:14Z

Copy the information needed from struct module into a local module list held within tracepoint.c from within the module coming/going notifier. This vastly simplifies locking of tracepoint registration / unregistration, because we don't have to take the module mutex to register and unregister tracepoints anymore. Steven Rostedt ran into dependency problems related to modules mutex vs kprobes mutex vs ftrace mutex vs tracepoint mutex that seems to be hard to fix without removing this dependency between tracepoint and module mutex. (note: it should be investigated whether kprobes could benefit of being dissociated from the modules mutex too.) This also fixes module handling of tracepoint list iterators, because it was expecting the list to be sorted by pointer address. Given we have control on our own list now, it's OK to sort this list which has tracepoints as its only purpose. The reason why this sorting is required is to handle the fact that seq files (and any read() operation from user-space) cannot hold the tracepoint mutex across multiple calls, so list entries may vanish between calls. With sorting, the tracepoint iterator becomes usable even if the list don't contain the exact item pointed to by the iterator anymore. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: Jason Baron CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Lai Jiangshan CC: Peter Zijlstra CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: Masami Hiramatsu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110810191839.GC8525@Krystal Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

module: add /sys/module//uevent files

2011-07-24T12:36:04Z

Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules. This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for built-in ones. To allow access to the built-in modules we need to re-trigger all module load events that happened before any userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers. This adds the currently missing /sys/module//uevent files to all module entries. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (split & trivial fix)