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[28/74] lto: Make ksymtab and kcrctab symbols and __this_module __visible

Message ID 1345345030-22211-29-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Commit Message

Andi Kleen Aug. 19, 2012, 2:56 a.m. UTC 
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Make the ksymtab symbols for EXPORT_SYMBOL visible.
This prevents the LTO compiler from adding a .NUMBER prefix,
which avoids various problems in later export processing.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
 include/linux/export.h |    4 ++--
 scripts/mod/modpost.c  |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h
index 784617e..77a3e8c 100644
--- a/include/linux/export.h
+++ b/include/linux/export.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@  extern struct module __this_module;
 /* 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));		\
+	extern __visible void *__crc_##sym __attribute__((weak));		\
 	static const unsigned long __kcrctab_##sym		\
 	__used							\
 	__attribute__((section("___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym), unused))	\
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@  extern struct module __this_module;
 	static const char __kstrtab_##sym[]			\
 	__attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \
 	= MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym;				\
-	static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym	\
+	__visible const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym	\
 	__used							\
 	__attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), unused))	\
 	= { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 68e9f5e..c797e95 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@  static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
 	buf_printf(b, "\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "MODULE_INFO(vermagic, VERMAGIC_STRING);\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "\n");
-	buf_printf(b, "struct module __this_module\n");
+	buf_printf(b, "__visible struct module __this_module\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "__attribute__((section(\".gnu.linkonce.this_module\"))) = {\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "\t.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,\n");
 	if (mod->has_init)