The commit f02e8a6 sorts symbols placing each of them in its own elf section.
The sorting and merging into the canonical sections are done by the linker.
Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux
(already linked) and all modules object files (which aren't linked yet).
These aren't sanitized by the linker yet. That breaks modpost that can't
detect license properly for modules. This patch makes modpost aware of
the new exported symbols structure.
Thanks to Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> and Anders Kaseorg
<andersk@ksplice.com> for providing useful suggestions about code.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it
writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance
with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools.
Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE
and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through
SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the
st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are
stored. See:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Consolidate locations that print a section whitelist into
calls to print_section_list().
Fix print_section_list() so that it does not print a trailing
comma & space:
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,
becomes:
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This patch fixes a segfault in modpost that is observed when the gold
linker is used to link the input objects.
The problem is that reloc_location (modpost.c) is computing the
address of the relocation target incorrectly. Here, elf->hdr points
to the beginning of the ELF file in memory, sechdr points to the
relocation section header, section is the index of the section
being relocated, and sechdrs[section].sh_offset would be the offset
of that section, relative to the beginning of the ELF file. Adding
elf->hdr + sechdrs[section].sh_offset gives you the address of the
beginning of the section, and adding r->r_offset to that gives you the
address of the location to be relocated. You do not need to subtract
sechdrs[section].sh_addr from that -- the result of this is an address
outside the file, and causes the segfault when addend_386_rel tries to
dereference it.
This bug is not observed when GNU ld is used to link the inputs. The
object file ubuntu/omnibook/omnibook.o is the result of an ld -r of
several other files. When GNU ld does an ld -r, it sets the vaddr
field for each section to 0, but gold lays out the section addresses
sequentially instead:
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
[ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0
[ 1] .text PROGBITS 00000000 000034 004794 00 AX 0 0 4
[ 2] .data PROGBITS 0000b9d0 0047c8 0009c0 00 WA 0 0 4
[ 3] .bss NOBITS 000162f8 005188 00013c 00 WA 0 0 4
[ 4] .rodata.str1.1 PROGBITS 00004f2d 0052c4 001b1a 01 AMS 0 0 1
[ 5] .init.text PROGBITS 00004794 006dde 0005fa 00 AX 0 0 1
[ 6] .exit.text PROGBITS 00004d8e 0073d8 00018a 00 AX 0 0 1
...
So the bug in the tool remained undiscovered because the section's vaddr
always happened to be 0.
Signed-off-by: Raymes Khoury <raymes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
"as --compress-debug-sections" will generate compressed debug sections
with section names ".zdebug*". This patch puts .zdebug* section on
white list.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
The last commits
37ed19d5cc5003bab82d
have introduced new behaviour of sec2annotation() method. However, the
commentary inside the method was left as before. Let's fix it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (22 commits)
param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checks
param: update drivers/acpi/debug.c to new scheme
param: use module_param in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
ide: use module_param_named rather than module_param_call
param: update drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c to new scheme
param: lock if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: lock myri10ge_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
param: remove unnecessary writable charp
param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.h
param: locking for kernel parameters
param: make param sections const.
param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters)
param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.
param: silence .init.text references from param ops
Add param ops struct for hvc_iucv driver.
nfs: update for module_param_named API change
AppArmor: update for module_param_named API change
param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly
param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions.
...
Permit .GCC-command-line sections in modules. Otherwise modpost says things
like:
WARNING: drivers/mtd/chips/map_ram.o (.GCC-command-line): unexpected non-allocatable section.
Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains
section definitions for use in .S files.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ideally, we'd check that it was only the "set" function which was __init,
and that the permissions were r/o. But that's a little hard.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
sec2annotation returns malloc'ed buffer directly to printf as an argument.
Free this buffer after printing.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Fomenko <ext-alexey.fomenko@nokia.com>
Cc: Trevor Keith <tsrk@tsrk.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch makes modpost able to process object files with more than
64k sections. Needed for huge kernel builds (allyesconfig, for example)
with -ffunction-sections. 64k sections handling is covered, for example,
by this document:
"IA-64 gABI Proposal 74: Section Indexes"
http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi/prop-74-sindex.html
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Gcc 4.5 is now generating out of line register save and restore
in the function prefix and postfix when we use -Os.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Alan <alan@clueserver.org> writes:
> program: /home/alan/GitTrees/linux-2.6-mid-ref/scripts/mod/modpost -o
> Module.symvers -S vmlinux.o
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
It just hit me.
It's the offset calculation in reloc_location() which overflows:
return (void *)elf->hdr + sechdrs[section].sh_offset +
(r->r_offset - sechdrs[section].sh_addr);
E.g. for the first rodata r entry:
r->r_offset < sechdrs[section].sh_addr
and the expression in the parenthesis produces 0xFFFFFFE0 or something
equally wise.
Reported-by: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Tested-by: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Either the functions referred to in a driver struct should live in
.devinit or the driver should be registered using platform_driver_probe
(or equivalent for different driver types) with ->probe being NULL.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
Kbuild: clean up marker
net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
drop explicit include of autoconf.h
kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
kbuild: drop include/asm
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
...
Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
memcmp() is wrong here, the symbol name can be shorter than KSYMTAB_PFX
or CRC_PFX.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Remove the unnecessary functions and variables.
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in
.tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure
definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option
into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code.
This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost
relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c.
A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs,
showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save
for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key"
symbol in the kallsyms data).
Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (blackfin)
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
- add .init.rodata to INIT_DATA, and group all initconst flavors
together
- move strings generated from __setup_param() into .init.rodata
- add .*init.rodata to modpost's sets of init sections
- make modpost warn about references between meminit and cpuinit
as well as memexit and cpuexit sections (as CPU and memory
hotplug are independently selectable features)
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
mips emit the following debug sections:
.mdebug* and .pdr
They were included in the check for non-allocatable section
and caused modpost to warn.
Manuel Lauss suggested to fix this by adding the relevant
sections to the list of sections we do not check.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Jean reported that he saw one warning for each module like the one below:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): unexpected non-allocatable section.
The warning appeared with the improved version of the
check of the flags in the sections.
That check already ignored sections named ".comment" - but SUSE store
additional info in the comment section and has named it in a SUSE
specific way. Therefore modpost failed to ignore the section.
The fix is to extend the pattern so we ignore all sections
that start with the name ".comment.".
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The missing TO_NATIVE(sechdrs[i].sh_flags) was causing many
unexpected non-allocatable section warnings when cross-compiling
for an architecture with a different endianness.
Fix endianness of all the fields in the ELF header and
section headers, not just some of them so we are not
hit by this anohter time.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Tested-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
When you put
.section ".foo"
in an assembly file instead of
.section "foo", "ax"
, one of the possible symptoms is that modpost will see an
ld-generated section name ".foo.1" in section_rel() or section_rela().
But this heuristic has two problems: it will miss a bad section that
has no relocations, and it will incorrectly flag many gcc-generated
sections as bad when compiling with -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections.
On mips it fixes a lot of bogus warnings with gcc 4.4.0 lije this one:
WARNING: crypto/cryptd.o (.text.T.349): unexpected section name.
So instead of checking whether the section name matches a particular
pattern, we directly check for a missing SHF_ALLOC in the section
flags.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
There is some confusion on naming of the head section.
Correct naming is .head.text.
Fix comment so we use correct naming.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
While building the kernel, we end-up calling modpost with -K and -M
options for the same file (Modules.markers). This is resulting in
modpost's main function calling read_markers() and then write_markers() on
the same file.
We then have read_markers() mmap'ing the file, and writer_markers()
opening that same file for writing.
The issue is that read_markers() exits without munmap'ing the file and is
as a matter holding a reference on Modules.markers. When write_markers()
is opening that very same file for writing, we still have a reference on
it and cygwin (Windows?) is then making fopen() fail with EPERM.
Calling release_file() before exiting read_markers() clears that reference
(and memory leak) and fopen() then succeeds.
Tested on both cygwin (1.3.22) and Linux. Also ran modpost within
valgrind on Linux to make sure that the munmap'ed file was not accessed
after read_markers()
Signed-off-by: Cedric Hombourger <chombourger@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The old refok sections
.text.init.refok
.data.init.refok
.exit.text.refok
have been deprecated since commit
312b1485fb. After the other patches in
this patch series nothing is put in these sections, so clean things up
by eliminating all the remaining references to them.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
new_module() itself already calls strdup() on its modname parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, we version 'struct module' using a dummy
export, but other things matter too:
1) 'struct modversion_info' determines the layout of the __versions section,
2) 'struct kernel_param' determines the layout of the __params section,
3) 'struct kernel_symbol' determines __ksymtab*.
4) 'struct marker' determines __markers.
5) 'struct tracepoint' determines __tracepoints.
So we rename 'struct_module' to 'module_layout' and include these in
the signature. Now it's general we can add others later on without
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: fix link failure on certain toolchains with specific configs
Recent percpu change made x86_64 split .data.init section into three
separate segments - data.init, percpu and data.init2. data.init2 gets
.data.nosave and .bss.* and is followed by .notes segment. Depending
on configuration both segments might contain no data, in which case
the tool chain makes the section header to contain offset beyond the
end of the file.
modpost isn't too happy about it and fails build - as reported by
Pawel Dziekonski:
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 416 modules
FATAL: vmlinux is truncated. sechdrs[i].sh_offset=10354688 >
sizeof(*hrd)=64
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
Teach modpost that NOBITS section may point beyond the end of the file
and that .modinfo can't be NOBITS.
Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.
Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.
This is the code that actually modifies the modules, adding the flag to
any files in the drivers/staging directory.
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:
>
> I've been playing with adding some markers into ext4 to see if they
> could be useful in solving some problems along with Systemtap. It
> appears, though, that as of 2.6.27-rc8, markers defined in code which is
> compiled directly into the kernel (i.e., not as modules) don't show up
> in Module.markers:
>
> kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
>
> (Note the lack of any of the kernel_sched_* markers, and the markers I
> added for ext4_* and jbd2_* are missing as wel.)
>
> Systemtap apparently depends on in-kernel trace_mark being recorded in
> Module.markers, and apparently it's been claimed that it used to be
> there. Is this a bug in systemtap, or in how Module.markers is getting
> built? And is there a file that contains the equivalent information
> for markers located in non-modules code?
I think the problem comes from "markers: fix duplicate modpost entry"
(commit d35cb360c2)
Especially :
- add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
+ if (!mod->skip)
+ add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
}
return;
fail:
Here is a fix that should take care if this problem.
Thanks for the bug report!
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Tested-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
CC: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Spelling fixes in scripts/mod/modpost.c
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a kernel was rebuilt, the previous Module.markers was not cleared.
It caused markers with different format strings to appear as duplicates
when a markers was changed. This problem is present since
scripts/mod/modpost.c started to generate Module.markers, commit
b2e3e658b3
It therefore applies to 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and linux-next.
I merely merged the patches from Roland, Wenji and Takashi here.
Credits to
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
and
Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
for providing the individual fixes.
- Changelog :
- Integrated Takashi's Makefile modification to clear Module.markers upon
make clean.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Cc: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
We have a case in powerpc in which we want to link some library
routines with all module objects. The routines are intended for
handling out-of-line function call register save/restore so having
them as EXPORT_SYMBOL() is counter productive (we do also need to
link the same "library" code into the kernel).
Without this patch a powerpc build would error out and fail
to build modules with the added register save/restore module.
There were two obvious solutions:
1) To link the .o file before the modpost stage
2) To ignore the symbols in modpost
Option 1) was ruled out because we do not have any separate
linking stage for single file modules.
This patch implements option 2 - and do so only for powerpc.
The symbols we ignore are all undefined symbols named:
_restgpr_*, _savegpr_*, _rest32gpr_*, _save32gpr_*
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Disable modpost warnings for linkonce sections
My build gives lots of warnings like
WARNING: sound/core/snd.o (.gnu.linkonce.wi.mpspec_def.h.30779716): unexpected section name.
The (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.
Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains
section definitions for use in .S files.
But for .linkonce. duplicated sections are actually ok and expected.
So just disable the warning for this case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Only modules that has other MODULE_* content
shall have the MODULE_LICENSE() tag.
This fixes allmodconfig build on my box.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch adds a new command line option -E to modpost, expecting a symbol
file as an argument which is read prior to symbol processing. -E can be
supplied multiple times for as many files as is needed.
When building kernel modules that depend on other modules not in the main
kernel tree, modpost complains about undefined symbols:
# make -C /path/to/linux/kernel M=/path/to/my/module
...
Building modules, stage 2.
....
WARNING: "rt_copy_buf" [/home/rich/osc_etl_rtw/osc_kmod.ko] undefined!
...etc
This situation occurs when modpost processes the new module's symbols. When
it finds symbols not exported by the mainline kernel, it issues this warning.
The patch adds a new command line option -e to modpost which expects a symbol
file as an argument. The symbols listed in this file are added to modpost's
symbol tables during startup. -e can be supplied as often as required.
This patch works together with the second patch. It introduces a new make
variable, KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, which is used when calling modpost.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hacker <lerichi@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
