From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
To: petr.pavlu@suse.com, corbet@lwn.net
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 v3 1/8] define kernel symbol flags
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 16:19:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251103161954.1351784-2-sidnayyar@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251103161954.1351784-1-sidnayyar@google.com>
Symbol flags is an enumeration used to represent flags as a bitset, for
example a flag to tell if a symbols GPL only.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
include/linux/module_symbol.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/module_symbol.h b/include/linux/module_symbol.h
index 77c9895b9ddb..574609aced99 100644
--- a/include/linux/module_symbol.h
+++ b/include/linux/module_symbol.h
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_MODULE_SYMBOL_H
#define _LINUX_MODULE_SYMBOL_H
+/* Kernel symbol flags bitset. */
+enum ksym_flags {
+ KSYM_FLAG_GPL_ONLY = 1 << 0,
+};
+
/* This ignores the intensely annoying "mapping symbols" found in ELF files. */
static inline bool is_mapping_symbol(const char *str)
{
--
2.51.1.930.gacf6e81ea2-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-03 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-03 16:19 [PATCH v3 0/8] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] linker: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] modpost: create entries for kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] module loader: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] modpost: put all exported symbols in ksymtab section Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] module loader: remove references of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-11-03 16:19 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] remove references to *_gpl sections in documentation Siddharth Nayyar
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