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From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	 Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>,
	maennich@google.com,  gprocida@google.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 7/8] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:54:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260305-kflagstab-v4-7-4fe6eea27e30@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260305-kflagstab-v4-0-4fe6eea27e30@google.com>

These sections are not used anymore and can be removed from vmlinux and
modules.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 18 ++----------------
 scripts/module.lds.S              |  2 --
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 8f825dcbfae4..d2e4fa997316 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -508,34 +508,20 @@
 									\
 	PRINTK_INDEX							\
 									\
-	/* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */			\
+	/* Kernel symbol table */					\
 	__ksymtab         : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
 		__start___ksymtab = .;					\
 		KEEP(*(SORT(___ksymtab+*)))				\
 		__stop___ksymtab = .;					\
 	}								\
 									\
-	/* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */			\
-	__ksymtab_gpl     : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\
-		__start___ksymtab_gpl = .;				\
-		KEEP(*(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)))				\
-		__stop___ksymtab_gpl = .;				\
-	}								\
-									\
-	/* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */			\
+	/* Kernel symbol CRC table */					\
 	__kcrctab         : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
 		__start___kcrctab = .;					\
 		KEEP(*(SORT(___kcrctab+*)))				\
 		__stop___kcrctab = .;					\
 	}								\
 									\
-	/* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */			\
-	__kcrctab_gpl     : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\
-		__start___kcrctab_gpl = .;				\
-		KEEP(*(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)))				\
-		__stop___kcrctab_gpl = .;				\
-	}								\
-									\
 	/* Kernel symbol flags table */					\
 	__kflagstab       : AT(ADDR(__kflagstab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\
 		__start___kflagstab = .;				\
diff --git a/scripts/module.lds.S b/scripts/module.lds.S
index d7a8ba278dfc..23fa452eb16d 100644
--- a/scripts/module.lds.S
+++ b/scripts/module.lds.S
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ SECTIONS {
 	}
 
 	__ksymtab		0 : ALIGN(8) { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) }
-	__ksymtab_gpl		0 : ALIGN(8) { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)) }
 	__kcrctab		0 : ALIGN(4) { *(SORT(___kcrctab+*)) }
-	__kcrctab_gpl		0 : ALIGN(4) { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)) }
 	__kflagstab		0 : ALIGN(1) { *(SORT(___kflagstab+*)) }
 
 	.ctors			0 : ALIGN(8) { *(SORT(.ctors.*)) *(.ctors) }

-- 
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-05 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-05 16:54 [PATCH v4 0/8] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] linker: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] modpost: populate kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] module loader: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] modpost: remove fragmentation of ksymtab and kcrctab sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] module loader: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] documentation: remove references to " Siddharth Nayyar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-03-05 16:55 [PATCH v4 0/8] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar

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