From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] module: remove meaningless 'name' parameter from __MODULE_INFO()
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 13:10:23 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250606041029.614348-2-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250606041029.614348-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
The symbol names in the .modinfo section are never used and already
randomized by the __UNIQUE_ID() macro.
Therefore, the second parameter of __MODULE_INFO() is meaningless
and can be removed to simplify the code.
With this change, the symbol names in the .modinfo section will be
prefixed with __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo, making it clearer that they
originate from MODULE_INFO().
[Before]
$ objcopy -j .modinfo vmlinux.o modinfo.o
$ nm -n modinfo.o | head -n10
0000000000000000 r __UNIQUE_ID_license560
0000000000000011 r __UNIQUE_ID_file559
0000000000000030 r __UNIQUE_ID_description558
0000000000000074 r __UNIQUE_ID_license580
000000000000008e r __UNIQUE_ID_file579
00000000000000bd r __UNIQUE_ID_description578
00000000000000e6 r __UNIQUE_ID_license581
00000000000000ff r __UNIQUE_ID_file580
0000000000000134 r __UNIQUE_ID_description579
0000000000000179 r __UNIQUE_ID_uncore_no_discover578
[After]
$ objcopy -j .modinfo vmlinux.o modinfo.o
$ nm -n modinfo.o | head -n10
0000000000000000 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo560
0000000000000011 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo559
0000000000000030 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo558
0000000000000074 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo580
000000000000008e r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo579
00000000000000bd r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo578
00000000000000e6 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo581
00000000000000ff r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo580
0000000000000134 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo579
0000000000000179 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo578
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---
include/crypto/algapi.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/module.h | 3 ---
include/linux/moduleparam.h | 9 +++++----
include/net/tcp.h | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/crypto/algapi.h b/include/crypto/algapi.h
index 6e07bbc04089..f5e7454758bd 100644
--- a/include/crypto/algapi.h
+++ b/include/crypto/algapi.h
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
* alias.
*/
#define MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO(name) \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_userspace, name); \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_crypto, "crypto-" name)
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, name); \
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, "crypto-" name)
struct crypto_aead;
struct crypto_instance;
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 92e1420fccdf..81b41cc6a19e 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -164,9 +164,6 @@ extern void cleanup_module(void);
struct module_kobject *lookup_or_create_module_kobject(const char *name);
-/* Generic info of form tag = "info" */
-#define MODULE_INFO(tag, info) __MODULE_INFO(tag, tag, info)
-
/* For userspace: you can also call me... */
#define MODULE_ALIAS(_alias) MODULE_INFO(alias, _alias)
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index bfb85fd13e1f..00166f747e27 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -20,18 +20,19 @@
/* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */
#define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
-#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
- static const char __UNIQUE_ID(name)[] \
+/* Generic info of form tag = "info" */
+#define MODULE_INFO(tag, info) \
+ static const char __UNIQUE_ID(modinfo)[] \
__used __section(".modinfo") __aligned(1) \
= __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX __stringify(tag) "=" info
#define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type) \
- __MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)
+ MODULE_INFO(parmtype, #name ":" _type)
/* One for each parameter, describing how to use it. Some files do
multiple of these per line, so can't just use MODULE_INFO. */
#define MODULE_PARM_DESC(_parm, desc) \
- __MODULE_INFO(parm, _parm, #_parm ":" desc)
+ MODULE_INFO(parm, #_parm ":" desc)
struct kernel_param;
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 4450c384ef17..ac6df59e4eea 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -2661,8 +2661,8 @@ void tcp_update_ulp(struct sock *sk, struct proto *p,
void (*write_space)(struct sock *sk));
#define MODULE_ALIAS_TCP_ULP(name) \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_userspace, name); \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_tcp_ulp, "tcp-ulp-" name)
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, name); \
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, "tcp-ulp-" name)
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_SOCK_MSG
struct sk_msg;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-06 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-06 4:10 [PATCH 0/4] kbuild: generate module.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped instead of vmlinux.o Masahiro Yamada
2025-06-06 4:10 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2025-06-13 10:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] module: remove meaningless 'name' parameter from __MODULE_INFO() Petr Pavlu
2025-06-06 4:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped Masahiro Yamada
2025-06-06 4:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped Masahiro Yamada
2025-06-06 12:53 ` kernel test robot
2025-06-06 4:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped Masahiro Yamada
2025-06-07 0:46 ` kernel test robot
2025-06-11 10:38 ` Alexey Gladkov
2025-06-08 14:44 ` [PATCH 0/4] kbuild: generate module.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped instead of vmlinux.o Alexey Gladkov
2025-06-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo Alexey Gladkov
2025-06-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure Alexey Gladkov
2025-06-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias Alexey Gladkov
2025-06-11 10:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules Alexey Gladkov
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