From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
To: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 00:12:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNASdhyhhqyf1wcga7UDYoo=2t-0ZaqTmQdcsFOfAR580sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801060657.5932-1-efremov@linux.com>
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:07 PM Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com> wrote:
>
> This patch adds a check to warn about static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
> during the modpost. In most of the cases, a static symbol marked for
> exporting is an odd combination that should be fixed either by deleting
> the exporting mark or by removing the static attribute and adding the
> appropriate declaration to headers.
>
> This check could help to detect the following problems:
> 1. 550113d4e9f5 ("i2c: add newly exported functions to the header, too")
> 2. 54638c6eaf44 ("net: phy: make exported variables non-static")
> 3. 98ef2046f28b ("mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages")
> 4. 73df167c819e ("s390/zcrypt: remove the exporting of ap_query_configuration")
> 5. a57caf8c527f ("sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next")
> 6. e4e4730698c9 ("crypto: skcipher - remove the exporting of skcipher_walk_next")
> 7. 14b4c48bb1ce ("gve: Remove the exporting of gve_probe")
> 8. 9b79ee9773a8 ("scsi: libsas: remove the exporting of sas_wait_eh")
> 9. ...
>
> The build time impact is very limited and is almost at the unnoticeable
> level (< 1 sec).
>
> Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
> ---
Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-07 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-14 15:28 [RFC PATCH] modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions Denis Efremov
2019-07-15 14:43 ` Emil Velikov
2019-07-27 12:55 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-27 19:13 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-28 2:00 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-28 10:09 ` [PATCH] " Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 3:29 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-29 9:51 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 5:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-07-29 9:16 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 9:32 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-29 12:40 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-07-29 12:52 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 13:07 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-07-29 9:22 ` [PATCH v2] " Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 12:20 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-07-29 12:47 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 14:18 ` [PATCH v3] " Denis Efremov
2019-07-29 22:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-07-30 6:59 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-30 16:29 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-30 16:44 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-30 17:21 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-30 18:11 ` [PATCH v4] " Denis Efremov
2019-07-30 18:15 ` Denis Efremov
2019-07-31 8:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-01 2:20 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-01 6:17 ` Denis Efremov
2019-08-01 6:06 ` [PATCH v5] " Denis Efremov
2019-08-07 15:12 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2019-08-13 16:07 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-13 21:11 ` Denis Efremov
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