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authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2011-05-23 22:11:39 +0400
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2011-10-31 17:20:11 +0400
commitf50169324df4ad942e544386d136216c8617636a (patch)
treee5b92d7ea573057f38c29a7771e06b7079b9024b /include/linux/export.h
parent839d8810747bbf39e0a5a7f223b67bffa7945f8d (diff)
downloadlinux-f50169324df4ad942e544386d136216c8617636a.tar.xz
module.h: split out the EXPORT_SYMBOL into export.h
A lot of files pull in module.h when all they are really looking for is the basic EXPORT_SYMBOL functionality. The recent data from Ingo[1] shows that this is one of several instances that has a significant impact on compile times, and it should be targeted for factoring out (as done here). Note that several commonly used header files in include/* directly include <linux/module.h> themselves (some 34 of them!) The most commonly used ones of these will have to be made independent of module.h before the full benefit of this change can be realized. We also transition THIS_MODULE from module.h to export.h, since there are lots of files with subsystem structs that in turn will have a struct module *owner and only be doing: .owner = THIS_MODULE; and absolutely nothing else modular. So, we also want to have the THIS_MODULE definition present in the lightweight header. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/76 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h
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+#ifndef _LINUX_EXPORT_H
+#define _LINUX_EXPORT_H
+/*
+ * Export symbols from the kernel to modules. Forked from module.h
+ * to reduce the amount of pointless cruft we feed to gcc when only
+ * exporting a simple symbol or two.
+ *
+ * If you feel the need to add #include <linux/foo.h> to this file
+ * then you are doing something wrong and should go away silently.
+ */
+
+/* Some toolchains use a `_' prefix for all user symbols. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX
+#define MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX
+#else
+#define MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX ""
+#endif
+
+struct kernel_symbol
+{
+ unsigned long value;
+ const char *name;
+};
+
+#ifdef MODULE
+extern struct module __this_module;
+#define THIS_MODULE (&__this_module)
+#else
+#define THIS_MODULE ((struct module *)0)
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+
+#ifndef __GENKSYMS__
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
+/* Mark the CRC weak since genksyms apparently decides not to
+ * generate a checksums for some symbols */
+#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
+ extern void *__crc_##sym __attribute__((weak)); \
+ static const unsigned long __kcrctab_##sym \
+ __used \
+ __attribute__((section("___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym), unused)) \
+ = (unsigned long) &__crc_##sym;
+#else
+#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
+#endif
+
+/* For every exported symbol, place a struct in the __ksymtab section */
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
+ extern typeof(sym) sym; \
+ __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
+ static const char __kstrtab_##sym[] \
+ __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \
+ = MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \
+ static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
+ __used \
+ __attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), unused)) \
+ = { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }
+
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")
+
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
+
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym) \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl_future")
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym) __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused")
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused_gpl")
+#else
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __GENKSYMS__ */
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_MODULES... */
+
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_EXPORT_H */