Re: [RFC] module: Strict per-modname namespaces

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:02:40PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> It reserves and disallows imports on any "MODULE_${name}" namespace,
> while it implicitly adds the same namespace to every module.

Ah nice.  This is pretty similar to what I want and had badly prototyped
a while ago.

> This allows exports targeted at specific modules and no others -- one
> random example included. I've hated the various kvm exports we've had
> for a while, and strictly limiting them to the kvm module helps
> alleviate some abuse potential.

And this was one of the targets on my list.  Specific kunits tests
would be another category.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(fpu_swap_kvm_fpstate, MODULE_kvm);

I would have preferred a syntax that has the MODULE in the export macro
instead of the namespace, but I do care more about actually having the
functionality, and this seems way simpler than what I had.