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authorAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>2019-04-29 18:11:14 +0200
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-05-07 21:50:24 +0900
commit898490c010b5d2e499e03b7e815fc214209ac583 (patch)
treefcd97072081ce9db13a84bb6463e55923479a171
parent4c11edfcf70bea4cb0a3f4992ac6a4852e8bdc31 (diff)
moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file
Problem: When a kernel module is compiled as a separate module, some important information about the kernel module is available via .modinfo section of the module. In contrast, when the kernel module is compiled into the kernel, that information is not available. Information about built-in modules is necessary in the following cases: 1. When it is necessary to find out what additional parameters can be passed to the kernel at boot time. 2. When you need to know which module names and their aliases are in the kernel. This is very useful for creating an initrd image. Proposal: The proposed patch does not remove .modinfo section with module information from the vmlinux at the build time and saves it into a separate file after kernel linking. So, the kernel does not increase in size and no additional information remains in it. Information is stored in the same format as in the separate modules (null-terminated string array). Because the .modinfo section is already exported with a separate modules, we are not creating a new API. It can be easily read in the userspace: $ tr '\0' '\n' < modules.builtin.modinfo ext4.softdep=pre: crc32c ext4.license=GPL ext4.description=Fourth Extended Filesystem ext4.author=Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others ext4.alias=fs-ext4 ext4.alias=ext3 ext4.alias=fs-ext3 ext4.alias=ext2 ext4.alias=fs-ext2 md_mod.alias=block-major-9-* md_mod.alias=md md_mod.description=MD RAID framework md_mod.license=GPL md_mod.parmtype=create_on_open:bool md_mod.parmtype=start_dirty_degraded:int ... Co-Developed-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
-rw-r--r--.gitignore1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dontdiff1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt5
-rw-r--r--Makefile2
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleparam.h12
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/link-vmlinux.sh3
8 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e7bb6c6edbae..2fb1765c33b0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ modules.builtin
/vmlinuz
/System.map
/Module.markers
+/modules.builtin.modinfo
#
# RPM spec file (make rpm-pkg)
diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
index ef25a066d952..512fa0239ebf 100644
--- a/Documentation/dontdiff
+++ b/Documentation/dontdiff
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ mktables
mktree
modpost
modules.builtin
+modules.builtin.modinfo
modules.order
modversions.h*
nconf
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 8a3830b39c7d..9c230ea71963 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ modules.builtin
This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
+modules.builtin.modinfo
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file contains modinfo from all modules that are built into the kernel.
+Unlike modinfo of a separate module, all fields are prefixed with module name.
+
Environment variables
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 85dd977f4232..9a8b3f94633d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1308,6 +1308,7 @@ _modinst_:
fi
@cp -f $(objtree)/modules.order $(MODLIB)/
@cp -f $(objtree)/modules.builtin $(MODLIB)/
+ @cp -f $(objtree)/modules.builtin.modinfo $(MODLIB)/
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
# This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
@@ -1348,6 +1349,7 @@ endif # CONFIG_MODULES
# Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
CLEAN_DIRS += $(MODVERDIR) include/ksym
+CLEAN_FILES += modules.builtin.modinfo
# Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
MRPROPER_DIRS += include/config usr/include include/generated \
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index f8f6f04c4453..bbb9e332f2fe 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -844,6 +844,7 @@
EXIT_CALL \
*(.discard) \
*(.discard.*) \
+ *(.modinfo) \
}
/**
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 5bf5dcd91009..5f7007430d35 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ extern typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \
#define MODULE_VERSION(_version) MODULE_INFO(version, _version)
#else
#define MODULE_VERSION(_version) \
+ MODULE_INFO(version, _version); \
static struct module_version_attribute ___modver_attr = { \
.mattr = { \
.attr = { \
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index ba36506db4fb..5ba250d9172a 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -10,23 +10,21 @@
module name. */
#ifdef MODULE
#define MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX /* empty */
+#define __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX /* empty */
#else
#define MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX KBUILD_MODNAME "."
+/* We cannot use MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX because some modules override it. */
+#define __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX KBUILD_MODNAME "."
#endif
/* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */
#define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
-#ifdef MODULE
#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
static const char __UNIQUE_ID(name)[] \
__used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1))) \
- = __stringify(tag) "=" info
-#else /* !MODULE */
-/* This struct is here for syntactic coherency, it is not used */
-#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
- struct __UNIQUE_ID(name) {}
-#endif
+ = __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX __stringify(tag) "=" info
+
#define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type) \
__MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index dc0e8c5a1402..e4383e0f476e 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ modpost_link vmlinux.o
# modpost vmlinux.o to check for section mismatches
${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.modpost" vmlinux.o
+info MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo
+${OBJCOPY} -j .modinfo -O binary vmlinux.o modules.builtin.modinfo
+
kallsymso=""
kallsyms_vmlinux=""
if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" ]; then