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 8/8] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:55:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260305-kflagstab-v4-8-6a76bf8b83c7@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260305-kflagstab-v4-0-6a76bf8b83c7@google.com>
*_gpl sections are no longer present in the kernel binary.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.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
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-05 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-05 16:55 [PATCH v4 0/8] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] linker: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] modpost: populate kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] module loader: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] modpost: remove fragmentation of ksymtab and kcrctab sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] module loader: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:55 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2026-03-25 12:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Petr Pavlu
2026-03-26 21:31 ` Sid Nayyar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-03-05 16:54 Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-05 16:54 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
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