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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>,
	gprocida@google.com
Subject: [PATCH v5 7/7] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:21:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260326-kflagstab-v5-7-455cd723dddf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260326-kflagstab-v5-0-455cd723dddf@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

-- 
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-26 21:21 [PATCH v5 0/7] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] module: populate kflagstab in modpost Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:21 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
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2026-03-26 21:25 [PATCH v5 0/7] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26 21:25 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar

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