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([2001:af0:8000:1409:193:86:92:181]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-48724460753sm23342442f8f.10.2026.09.21.05.36.31 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2b27bb4b-47e3-45ed-a26a-4b9de2b20542@suse.com> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:36:30 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/21] modpost: emit module descriptors as assembly To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nathan Chancellor , Nicolas Schier , Nick Desaulniers , Bill Wendling , Justin Stitt , Masahiro Yamada , Alexey Gladkov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. 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Silva" , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org References: <20260914-build-speedup-v2-0-39817ec5db23@kernel.org> <20260914-build-speedup-v2-13-39817ec5db23@kernel.org> <95baacfb-d8d9-4d2f-bc89-592df6f6f8e3@suse.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Petr Pavlu In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/21/26 1:57 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > (note there's a v3 see [0]) > > [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20260917-build-speedup-v3-0-9ecf4163ff36@kernel.org/ Thanks, I missed it. > On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 01:25:09PM +0200, Petr Pavlu wrote: >> On 9/14/26 11:22 AM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: >>> The sections were confirmed to be byte-for-byte identical to the C version >>> produced - each of .modinfo, .gnu.linkonce.this_module, __ksymtab*, >>> __ksymtab_strings, __kcrctab*, __kflagstab*, __versions, >>> __version_ext_crcs, __version_ext_names and their relocations - for all >>> 8,135 modules of a clang allmodconfig build with CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST off >>> and CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS and >>> CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL on, and for a sample built with gcc. >> >> Lowering the data to assembly loses debug information for __this_module, >> specifically that it has type `struct module`. It might be worth > > No, it keeps it - every module includes linux/module.h, and the extern > declaration of __this_module carries the type, so all of the stuff gdb > needs (e.g. ptype, p & field access), DWARF etc. is all there in the same > way as with .mod.c. > > Have confirmed locally. An extern declaration alone shouldn't cause its name and type to be included in debug information. They should appear only when the variable is referenced by some code. Testing with a simple module that previously referenced __this_module only in .mod.c and in no other file, such as lib/test_module.c, shows that the .ko no longer contains debug information for this variable. I've verified this behavior with GCC 16 and Clang 19. -- Cheers, Petr