From: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH v5 01/10] module: remove meaningless 'name' parameter from __MODULE_INFO()
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:49:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a613ff93428aece0933335957d5980eb6417f2d0.1753354215.git.legion@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1753354215.git.legion@kernel.org>
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The symbol names in the .modinfo section are never used and already
randomized by the __UNIQUE_ID() macro.
Therefore, the second parameter of __MODULE_INFO() is meaningless
and can be removed to simplify the code.
With this change, the symbol names in the .modinfo section will be
prefixed with __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo, making it clearer that they
originate from MODULE_INFO().
[Before]
$ objcopy -j .modinfo vmlinux.o modinfo.o
$ nm -n modinfo.o | head -n10
0000000000000000 r __UNIQUE_ID_license560
0000000000000011 r __UNIQUE_ID_file559
0000000000000030 r __UNIQUE_ID_description558
0000000000000074 r __UNIQUE_ID_license580
000000000000008e r __UNIQUE_ID_file579
00000000000000bd r __UNIQUE_ID_description578
00000000000000e6 r __UNIQUE_ID_license581
00000000000000ff r __UNIQUE_ID_file580
0000000000000134 r __UNIQUE_ID_description579
0000000000000179 r __UNIQUE_ID_uncore_no_discover578
[After]
$ objcopy -j .modinfo vmlinux.o modinfo.o
$ nm -n modinfo.o | head -n10
0000000000000000 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo560
0000000000000011 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo559
0000000000000030 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo558
0000000000000074 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo580
000000000000008e r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo579
00000000000000bd r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo578
00000000000000e6 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo581
00000000000000ff r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo580
0000000000000134 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo579
0000000000000179 r __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo578
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---
include/crypto/algapi.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/module.h | 3 ---
include/linux/moduleparam.h | 9 +++++----
include/net/tcp.h | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/crypto/algapi.h b/include/crypto/algapi.h
index 188eface0a11..fc4574940636 100644
--- a/include/crypto/algapi.h
+++ b/include/crypto/algapi.h
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
* alias.
*/
#define MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO(name) \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_userspace, name); \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_crypto, "crypto-" name)
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, name); \
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, "crypto-" name)
struct crypto_aead;
struct crypto_instance;
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 5faa1fb1f4b4..4689852d7b18 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -164,9 +164,6 @@ extern void cleanup_module(void);
struct module_kobject *lookup_or_create_module_kobject(const char *name);
-/* Generic info of form tag = "info" */
-#define MODULE_INFO(tag, info) __MODULE_INFO(tag, tag, info)
-
/* For userspace: you can also call me... */
#define MODULE_ALIAS(_alias) MODULE_INFO(alias, _alias)
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index bfb85fd13e1f..00166f747e27 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -20,18 +20,19 @@
/* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */
#define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
-#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
- static const char __UNIQUE_ID(name)[] \
+/* Generic info of form tag = "info" */
+#define MODULE_INFO(tag, info) \
+ static const char __UNIQUE_ID(modinfo)[] \
__used __section(".modinfo") __aligned(1) \
= __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX __stringify(tag) "=" info
#define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type) \
- __MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)
+ MODULE_INFO(parmtype, #name ":" _type)
/* One for each parameter, describing how to use it. Some files do
multiple of these per line, so can't just use MODULE_INFO. */
#define MODULE_PARM_DESC(_parm, desc) \
- __MODULE_INFO(parm, _parm, #_parm ":" desc)
+ MODULE_INFO(parm, #_parm ":" desc)
struct kernel_param;
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 5078ad868fee..9b39ef630c92 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -2662,8 +2662,8 @@ void tcp_update_ulp(struct sock *sk, struct proto *p,
void (*write_space)(struct sock *sk));
#define MODULE_ALIAS_TCP_ULP(name) \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_userspace, name); \
- __MODULE_INFO(alias, alias_tcp_ulp, "tcp-ulp-" name)
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, name); \
+ MODULE_INFO(alias, "tcp-ulp-" name)
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_SOCK_MSG
struct sk_msg;
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-24 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-24 13:49 [PATCH v5 00/10] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 13:49 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message]
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-28 13:57 ` Alexander Gordeev
2025-07-28 15:15 ` Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-29 13:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] pinctrl: meson: Fix typo in device table macro Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 14:09 ` Neil Armstrong
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 16:00 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-24 13:49 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-26 10:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2025-07-28 14:01 ` Heiko Carstens
2025-07-28 15:18 ` Alexey Gladkov
2025-07-29 12:46 ` Masahiro Yamada
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