From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] define kernel symbol flags
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:54:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250829105418.3053274-2-sidnayyar@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250829105418.3053274-1-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>
---
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)
{
--
2.51.0.338.gd7d06c2dae-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-29 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-29 10:54 [RFC PATCH 00/10] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] linker: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] modpost: create entries for kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] module loader: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:19 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] modpost: put all exported symbols in ksymtab section Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] module loader: remove references of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:22 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 07/10] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 08/10] remove references to *_gpl sections in documentation Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:24 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 09/10] modpost: add symbol import protection flag to kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:35 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 10/10] module loader: enforce symbol import protection Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 15:35 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-09-01 12:27 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Petr Pavlu
2025-09-03 23:28 ` Sid Nayyar
2025-09-08 10:09 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-09-15 15:53 ` Sid Nayyar
2025-09-22 11:41 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-09-26 0:11 ` Sid Nayyar
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