From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
To: petr.pavlu@suse.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org,
nathan@kernel.org, nicolas.schier@linux.dev,
samitolvanen@google.com, sidnayyar@google.com,
maennich@google.com, gprocida@google.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/10] remove references to *_gpl sections in documentation
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:39:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251013153918.2206045-9-sidnayyar@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251013153918.2206045-1-sidnayyar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index d0703605bfa4..b3a26a36ee17 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -426,11 +426,12 @@ Symbols From the Kernel (vmlinux + modules)
Version Information Formats
---------------------------
- Exported symbols have information stored in __ksymtab or __ksymtab_gpl
- sections. Symbol names and namespaces are stored in __ksymtab_strings,
- using a format similar to the string table used for ELF. If
- CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is enabled, the CRCs corresponding to exported
- symbols will be added to the __kcrctab or __kcrctab_gpl.
+ Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab and
+ __kflagstab sections. Symbol names and namespaces are stored in
+ __ksymtab_strings section, using a format similar to the string
+ table used for ELF. If CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is enabled, the CRCs
+ corresponding to exported symbols will be added to the
+ __kcrctab section.
If CONFIG_BASIC_MODVERSIONS is enabled (default with
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS), imported symbols will have their symbol name and
--
2.51.0.740.g6adb054d12-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-13 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-13 15:39 [PATCH v2 00/10] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] define kernel symbol flags Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] linker: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] modpost: create entries for kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] module loader: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] modpost: put all exported symbols in ksymtab section Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] module loader: remove references of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] modpost: add symbol import protection flag to kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] module loader: enforce symbol import protection Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-14 7:34 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-20 23:00 ` Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-23 2:36 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-23 9:58 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-13 19:02 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Jonathan Corbet
2025-10-20 22:43 ` Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-21 8:35 ` Petr Pavlu
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