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From: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
To: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com,
	maco@android.com, sspatil@google.com, will@kernel.org,
	yamada.masahiro@socionext.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Symbol Namespaces
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 10:35:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190909083522.GA446@linux-8ccs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190906103235.197072-1-maennich@google.com>

+++ Matthias Maennich [06/09/19 11:32 +0100]:
>As of Linux 5.3-rc7, there are 31207 [1] exported symbols in the kernel.
>That is a growth of roughly 1000 symbols since 4.17 (30206 [2]). There
>seems to be some consensus amongst kernel devs that the export surface
>is too large, and hard to reason about.
>
>Generally, these symbols fall in one of these categories:
>1) Symbols actually meant for drivers
>2) Symbols that are only exported because functionality is split over
>   multiple modules, yet they really shouldn't be used by modules outside
>   of their own subsystem
>3) Symbols really only meant for in-tree use
>
>When module developers try to upstream their code, it regularly turns
>out that they are using exported symbols that they really shouldn't be
>using. This problem is even bigger for drivers that are currently
>out-of-tree, which may be using many symbols that they shouldn't be
>using, and that break when those symbols are removed or modified.
>
>This patch allows subsystem maintainers to partition their exported
>symbols into separate namespaces, and module authors to import such
>namespaces only when needed.
>
>This allows subsystem maintainers to more easily limit availability of
>these namespaced symbols to other parts of the kernel. It can also be
>used to partition the set of exported symbols for documentation
>purposes; for example, a set of symbols that is really only used for
>debugging could be in a "SUBSYSTEM_DEBUG" namespace.
>
>I continued the work mainly done by Martijn Coenen.
>
>Changes in v2:
>- Rather than adding and evaluating separate sections __knsimport_NS,
>  use modinfo tags to declare the namespaces a module introduces.
>  Adjust modpost and the module loader accordingly.
>- Also add support for reading multiple modinfo values for the same tag
>  to allow list-like access to modinfo tags.
>- The macros in export.h have been cleaned up to avoid redundancy in the
>  macro parameters (ns, nspost, nspost2).
>- The introduction of relative references in the ksymtab entries caused
>  a rework of the macros to accommodate that configuration as well.
>- Alignment of kernel_symbol in the ksymtab needed to be fixed to allow
>  growing the kernel_symbol struct.
>- Modpost does now also append the namespace suffix to the symbol
>  entries in Module.symvers.
>- The configuration option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS allows
>  relaxing the enforcement of properly declared namespace imports at
>  module loading time.
>- Symbols can be collectively exported into a namespace by defining
>  DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE in the corresponding Makefile.
>- The requirement for a very recent coccinelle spatch has been lifted by
>  simplifying the script.
>- nsdeps does now ensures MODULE_IMPORT_NS statements are sorted when
>  patching the module source files.
>- Some minor bugs have been addressed in nsdeps to allow it to work with
>  modules that have more than one source file.
>- The RFC for the usb-storage symbols has been simplified by using
>  DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE=USB_STORAGE rather than explicitly exporting
>  each and every symbol into that new namespace.
>
>Changes in v3:
>- Reword the documentation for the
>  MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS option for clarification.
>- Fix printed required version of spatch in coccinelle script.
>- Adopt kbuild changes for modpost: .mod files are no longer generated
>  in .tmp_versions. Similarely, generate the .ns_deps files in the tree
>  along with the .mod files. Also, nsdeps now uses modules.order as
>  source for the list modules to consider.
>- Add an RFC patch to introduce the namespace WATCHDOG_CORE for symbols
>  exported in watchdog_core.c.
>
>Changes in v4:
>- scripts/nsdeps:
>  - exit on first error
>  - support out-of-tree builds O=...
>- scripts/export_report.pl: update for new Module.symvers format
>- scripts/mod/modpost: make the namespace a separate field when
>  exporting to Module.symvers (rather than symbol.NS)
>- include/linux/export.h: fixed style nits
>- kernel/module.c: ensure namespaces are imported before taking a
>  reference to the owner module
>- Documentation: document the Symbol Namespace feature and update
>  references to Module.symvers and EXPORT_SYMBOL*
>
>Changes in v5:
>- Makefile: let 'nsdeps' depend on 'modules' to allow
>  `make clean; make nsdeps` to work
>- scripts/nsdeps: drop 'exit on first error' again as it just makes more
>  problems than it solves
>- drop the watchdog RFC patch for now
>
>This patch series was developed against v5.3-rc7.

Great work Matthias!

I think this patchset is shaping up nicely. As the merge window is
coming up soon, I'd like to queue this up in modules-next by the end
of today to allow for some testing and "soak" time in linux-next. If
there are any more complaints, please speak up.

Thanks!

Jessica

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20180716122125.175792-1-maco@android.com>
     [not found] ` <20180716122125.175792-3-maco@android.com>
     [not found]   ` <CAB0TPYEOVHcFGFLTjVvk7R0VSgSnXZRi1PjSYXONJSjqd4NewQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20180725155507.umb5oatduquxwlmt@linux-8ccs>
2018-07-25 16:48       ` [PATCH 2/6] module: add support for symbol namespaces Lucas De Marchi
2018-07-26  7:44         ` Martijn Coenen
2019-08-13 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/10] Symbol namespaces - RFC Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 01/10] module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 12:40     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 02/10] export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 12:41     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 03/10] module: add support for symbol namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 15:26     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 04/10] modpost: " Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 15:27     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 05/10] module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 18:17     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 20:15     ` Saravana Kannan
2019-08-14 12:54       ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-14 17:34         ` Saravana Kannan
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 06/10] export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 18:16     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 18:16     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 18:21     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 08/10] scripts: Coccinelle script for " Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 12:31     ` Julia Lawall
2019-08-13 12:44     ` Greg KH
2019-08-14  6:36     ` [Cocci] " Himanshu Jha
2019-08-14  8:03       ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-14 12:00     ` [v2 " Markus Elfring
2019-08-15 13:50     ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-22  9:18       ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-22 11:00         ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 09/10] usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 12:42     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 13:12       ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:17   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] RFC: usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace Matthias Maennich
2019-08-13 12:45     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 12:47     ` Greg KH
2019-08-13 15:02       ` Matthias Maennich
     [not found]   ` <20190821114955.12788-1-maennich@google.com>
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 01/11] module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 02/11] export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 03/11] module: add support for symbol namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-08-27 15:37       ` Jessica Yu
2019-08-27 16:04         ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 04/11] modpost: " Matthias Maennich
2019-08-26 16:21       ` Jessica Yu
2019-08-27 14:41         ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-28  9:43           ` Jessica Yu
2019-08-28  9:55             ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-28 10:16               ` Jessica Yu
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 05/11] module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 06/11] export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources Matthias Maennich
2019-08-28 10:49       ` Jessica Yu
2019-08-28 10:56         ` Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 07/11] modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 08/11] scripts: Coccinelle script for " Matthias Maennich
2019-08-22  6:09       ` [v3 " Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 12:13       ` [PATCH v3 " Jessica Yu
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 09/11] usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 12:37       ` Greg KH
2019-08-21 13:21       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-21 13:32         ` Greg KH
2019-08-21 11:49     ` [PATCH v3 10/11] RFC: usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace Matthias Maennich
2019-08-21 12:38       ` Greg KH
2019-08-21 14:36         ` Jessica Yu
2019-08-21 23:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-22  8:32         ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 00/12] Symbol Namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 01/12] module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 02/12] export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 03/12] module: add support for symbol namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 04/12] modpost: " Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 05/12] module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 06/12] export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 07/12] modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 08/12] scripts: Coccinelle script for " Matthias Maennich
2019-09-04  9:53     ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-05 14:46       ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 09/12] docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-09-04  7:16     ` Greg KH
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 10/12] usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 11/12] RFC: usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 15:06   ` [PATCH v4 12/12] RFC: watchdog: export core symbols in WATCHDOG_CORE namespace Matthias Maennich
2019-09-03 16:10     ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-04  8:45       ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-04 12:12         ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-04 16:16           ` [usb-storage] " Matthew Dharm
2019-09-05 10:41             ` Jessica Yu
2019-09-05 10:52               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-05 11:16                 ` Jessica Yu
2019-09-05 11:25                   ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-05 12:00                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-05 11:25               ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-04  9:37   ` [PATCH v4 00/12] Symbol Namespaces Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-06 10:32 ` [PATCH v5 00/11] " Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 01/11] module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 02/11] export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 03/11] module: add support for symbol namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 04/11] modpost: " Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 05/11] module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 06/11] export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 07/11] modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 08/11] scripts: Coccinelle script for " Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 09/11] docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 10/11] usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging Matthias Maennich
2019-09-06 12:59     ` Jessica Yu
2019-09-06 13:22       ` Greg KH
2019-09-06 10:32   ` [PATCH v5 11/11] usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace Matthias Maennich
2019-09-09  8:35   ` Jessica Yu [this message]

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