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SubjectRe: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> This warning sounds like a good plan (but it won't let many objects stay
> inside lib-y).

The patch is simple (except that the warning it throws looks rather ugly),
see appended.

However, I spoke too soon. There actually is a legitimate use for
EXPORT_SYMBOL() in a lib-y object, e.g. lib/dump_stack.c. This provides a
default implementation for dump_stack(). Most archs provide their own
implementation (and EXPORT_SYMBOL() it), and in this case we definitely
want the default version in lib to be thrown away, including its
EXPORT_SYMBOL. So the appended patch throws false positives and thus can
not be applied.

Still, many files in lib-y "should" be moved to obj-y. Then again, the
clear cases (e.g. ctype, vsnprintf) are getting used in the static kernel
image, so they get linked in anyway, moving them from lib-y to obj-y
doesn't make any difference whatsoever.

The interesting cases are more of the crc32 type -- some people may not
use this at all, so they want the space savings. Moving all of those into
obj-y unconditionally creates unnecessary bloat. Actually, crc32 already
did the right thing -- a config option. That would work for parser.o, too,
just make the filesystems which need it "select CONFIG_PARSER".

I think there are basically three cases of objects in lib-y:

o functions we clearly use anyway, e.g. vsprintf.o.
these should be always available, also for modules (pretty much every
module uses printk, right?)
So these should be in obj-y, however since they always get used in the
kernel, too, independent of the .config, in practice there's no
difference to them being in lib-y.
o "weak" implementations, which may be overwritten by a arch-specific
implementation.
These need to be in lib-y for this mechanism to work.
o Marginal cases like crc32.o, parser.o, bitmap.o
There are real world cases out there where these functions will never be
used, so just compiling them into the kernel because one day there may
be a module which wants to use them does cause some bloat. Making them
config options and have every module which needs them mention them in
Kconfig causes some bloat on the source side.
It's a trade-off. In my tree (current -bk), parser.o symbols are
referenced by procfs, i.e. 99.9% of all builds will pull it in anyway.
So putting it into obj-y is a good solution, IMO. (Do I hear the
embedded people cry?)
I guess in -mm this changed, which may justify going to CONFIG_PARSER
(along the lines of CONFIG_CRC32) way. Then again, .text of
parser.o is 0x373 bytes on my x86_64 system. Not a whole lot to
lose when it's compiled in unconditionally. (And it's used among others
by ext2 and ext3, so chances are, you need it anyway)


--Kai

===== include/linux/module.h 1.92 vs edited =====
--- 1.92/include/linux/module.h 2005-01-10 14:28:15 -05:00
+++ edited/include/linux/module.h 2005-03-05 10:49:05 -05:00
@@ -200,10 +200,18 @@
= { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }

#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL_WARN \
__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")

#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL_WARN \
__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
+
+#ifdef KBUILD_LIB
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL_WARN DO_NOT_USE_EXPORT_SYMBOL_IN_LIBRARY_FILES;
+#else
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL_WARN
+#endif

#endif

===== scripts/Makefile.build 1.53 vs edited =====
--- 1.53/scripts/Makefile.build 2004-12-28 18:15:17 -05:00
+++ edited/scripts/Makefile.build 2005-03-05 10:34:44 -05:00
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
$(real-objs-m:.o=.s) : modkern_cflags := $(CFLAGS_MODULE)
$(real-objs-m:.o=.lst): modkern_cflags := $(CFLAGS_MODULE)

+$(lib-y) : lib_cflags := -DKBUILD_LIB
+
$(real-objs-m) : quiet_modtag := [M]
$(real-objs-m:.o=.i) : quiet_modtag := [M]
$(real-objs-m:.o=.s) : quiet_modtag := [M]
===== scripts/Makefile.lib 1.27 vs edited =====
--- 1.27/scripts/Makefile.lib 2004-10-26 18:06:46 -04:00
+++ edited/scripts/Makefile.lib 2005-03-05 10:33:38 -05:00
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
endif

c_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) \
- $(__c_flags) $(modkern_cflags) \
+ $(__c_flags) $(modkern_cflags) $(lib_cflags) \
$(basename_flags) $(modname_flags)

a_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) \
-
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