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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

From Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
Date 2016-11-24 10:30 +0100
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On 2016-11-24 05:40, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> 
>> Commit 4efca4ed ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm") adds
>> modversion support for symbols exported from asm files. Architectures
>> must include C-style declarations for those symbols in asm/asm-prototypes.h
>> in order for them to be versioned.
>>
>> Add these declarations for x86, and an architecture-independent file that
>> can be used for common symbols.
>>
>> User impact: kernels may fail to load modules at all when
>> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
>> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
>> Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
>> Tested-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
>> Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
>> ---
>> Changes: corrected Peter Wu's address, added Tested-by: Oliver.
>> This is an unsplit version (x86/include/ and include/ together).
>>
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h  |  7 +++++++
>>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h
> 
> Michal, I'm quite unhappy about how the offending commit that broke modversions 
> for essentially _everyone_ who does more complex modular builds on x86 ended up 
> upstream:
> 
>   commit 4efca4ed05cbdfd13ec3e8cb623fb77d6e4ab187
>   Author:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
>   AuthorDate: Tue Nov 1 12:46:19 2016 +1100
>   Commit:     Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
>   CommitDate: Tue Nov 1 16:20:17 2016 +0100
> 
>       kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
> 
>       Allow architectures to create asm/asm-prototypes.h file that
>       provides C prototypes for exported asm functions, which enables
>       proper CRC versions to be generated for them.
> 
>  scripts/Makefile.build | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> It was applied 4 hours after it was sent in the -rc3 timeframe, and then it went 
> upstream in -rc5:
> 
>      "Here are some regression fixes for kbuild:
>     
>        - modversion support for exported asm symbols (Nick Piggin). The
>          affected architectures need separate patches adding
>          asm-prototypes.h.
> 
> ... the fine merge log even says that the commit 'needs separate patches'!

It needs separate patches to finally fix the regression that happened in
-rc1.

Michal

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Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> - 2016-11-23 21:10 +0100
  Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us> - 2016-11-23 21:20 +0100
    Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> - 2016-11-23 21:30 +0100
  Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-23 22:00 +0100
    Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us> - 2016-11-23 22:10 +0100
    [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-23 23:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> - 2016-11-24 00:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-24 06:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 06:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-24 07:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 08:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-24 08:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 09:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-11-24 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 11:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-11-24 12:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-24 10:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 11:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-24 11:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 11:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-24 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported  from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 01:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from  asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-11-24 10:30 +0100
      Regression: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-11-24 12:50 +0100
    Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> - 2016-11-24 00:10 +0100

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