From: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Symbol namespaces
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:09:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB0TPYH2G_+faZDcvoEyUmZfwP0j83P0KeZXSJdN9rJ4M1ad3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1F2j3PL2ng7xw9TbCQqwn_U+1D5ChH+v8qWVrxOfW3xw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Arnd,
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> This looks nice. I don't want to overload you with additional
> requests, but it might be good to think about how this can
> be taken further, if we want to actually convert large
> parts of the kernel to it.
No worries about overloading, I'm happy with all feedback to make this better.
> I have two ideas:
>
> - It would be nice to have a simple mechanism in Kconfig
> to put all symbols in a module into a namespace that is
> derived from KBUILD_MODNAME, to avoid having to
> annotate every symbol separately. This could be similar
> to how we ended up dealing with EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS
> in the linux-2.4 days, with the goal of eventually having
> a namespace for each symbol. Similarly, we could pass
> a number of default namespaces through the Makefile,
> e.g. if we have a directory that has lots of drivers that all
> import the symbols from a common subsystem module.
I'm hinging on two thoughts here; I really like it because it
obviously reduces work and makes this easier to use. On the other
hand, you now have to look in multiple places to see if a symbol is
exported to a namespace/imported from a module. Perhaps it depends on
how coarse-grained the namespaces end up being. Either way, I think it
would be pretty easy to cook up patches for this.
>
> - If this is possible to implement, it would be great to have
> a way to limit the globally visible symbols in a module
> to the ones that are explicitly exported even when a that
> module is built-in rather than loadable. Not sure how this
> is best done though. A couple of things can be done with
> objcopy, or possibly by reintroducing partial linking (which
> was removed not too long ago).
If I understand you correctly, this is orthogonal to symbol
namespaces, right? Though I think there is value in doing the same
thing for symbol namespaces: right now, the only way to find out if
all modules correctly import a symbol exported to a namespace is to
run an 'allmodconfig'; not having to do that would be a win. Being
able to do the same thing for the exported symbols in the global
namespace is very similar. So yeah, I think this is a good idea and
will look into this more.
Do you think these things should be a part of these series, or can it
be a follow-up?
Thanks,
Martijn
>
> Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-16 12:21 [PATCH 0/6] Symbol namespaces Martijn Coenen
2018-07-16 12:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol Martijn Coenen
2018-07-16 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/6] module: add support for symbol namespaces Martijn Coenen
2018-07-19 16:32 ` Jessica Yu
2018-07-20 7:54 ` Martijn Coenen
2018-07-20 14:49 ` Jessica Yu
2018-07-20 15:42 ` Martijn Coenen
2018-07-23 11:12 ` Jessica Yu
2018-07-24 7:44 ` Martijn Coenen
2018-07-24 7:56 ` Martijn Coenen
2018-07-25 15:55 ` Jessica Yu
2018-07-25 16:48 ` Lucas De Marchi
2018-07-26 7:44 ` Martijn Coenen
2018-07-16 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] modpost: add support for checking " Martijn Coenen
2018-07-16 12:21 ` [PATCH 4/6] modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies Martijn Coenen
2018-07-23 6:49 ` Jessica Yu
2018-07-16 12:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] scripts: Coccinelle script for " Martijn Coenen
2018-07-16 12:21 ` [PATCH 6/6] RFC: USB: storage: move symbols into USB_STORAGE namespace Martijn Coenen
2018-07-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 0/6] Symbol namespaces Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-23 14:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-24 8:09 ` Martijn Coenen [this message]
2018-07-24 9:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
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
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