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[v2,02/13] EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm

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Al Viro Feb. 3, 2016, 9:20 p.m. UTC
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Add asm-usable variants of EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.  This
commit just adds the default implementation; most of the architectures
can simply add export.h to asm/Kbuild and start using <asm/export.h>
from assembler.  The rest needs to have their <asm/export.h> define
everal macros and then explicitly include <asm-generic/export.h>

One area where the things might diverge from default is the alignment;
normally it's 8 bytes on 64bit targets and 4 on 32bit ones, both for
unsigned long and for struct kernel_symbol.  Unfortunately, amd64 and
m68k are unusual - m68k aligns to 2 bytes (for both) and amd64 aligns
struct kernel_symbol to 16 bytes.  For those we'll need asm/export.h to
override the constants used by generic version - KSYM_ALIGN and KCRC_ALIGN
for kernel_symbol and unsigned long resp.  And no, __alignof__ would not
do the trick - on amd64 __alignof__ of struct kernel_symbol is 8, not 16.

More serious source of unpleasantness is treatment of function
descriptors on architectures that have those.  Things like ppc64,
parisc, ia64, etc.  need more than the address of the first insn to
call an arbitrary function.  As the result, their representation of
pointers to functions is not the typical "address of the entry point" -
it's an address of a small static structure containing all the required
information (including the entry point, of course).  Sadly, the asm-side
conventions differ in what the function name refers to - entry point or
the function descriptor.  On ppc64 we do the latter;
	bar: .quad foo
is what void (*bar)(void) = foo; turns into and the rare places where
we need to explicitly work with the label of entry point are dealt with
as DOTSYM(foo).  For our purposes it's ideal - generic macros are usable.
However, parisc would have foo and P%foo used for label of entry point
and address of the function descriptor and
	bar: .long P%foo
woudl be used instead.	ia64 goes similar to parisc in that respect,
except that there it's @fptr(foo) rather than P%foo.  Such architectures
need to define KSYM_FUNC that would turn a function name into whatever
is needed to refer to function descriptor.

What's more, on such architectures we need to know whether we are exporting
a function or an object - in assembler we have to tell that explicitly, to
decide whether we want EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo) produce e.g.
	__ksymtab_foo: .quad foo
or
	__ksymtab_foo: .quad @fptr(foo)

For that reason we introduce EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL{,_GPL}(), to be used for
exports of data objects.  On normal architectures it's the same thing
as EXPORT_SYMBOL{,_GPL}(), but on parisc-like ones they differ and the
right one needs to be used.  Most of the exports are functions, so we
keep EXPORT_SYMBOL for those...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 include/asm-generic/export.h | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/export.h

Comments

Al Viro Feb. 4, 2016, 6:06 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 09:20:34PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> +.macro __EXPORT_SYMBOL name,val,sec
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> +	.globl __ksymtab_\name

Should be .globl KSYM(__ksymtab_\name), to match the actual label in
> +KSYM(__ksymtab_\name):

Fix folded and pushed...
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diff --git a/include/asm-generic/export.h b/include/asm-generic/export.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba86909
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/export.h
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ 
+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_EXPORT_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_EXPORT_H
+
+#ifndef KSYM_FUNC
+#define KSYM_FUNC(x) x
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+#define __put .quad
+#ifndef KSYM_ALIGN
+#define KSYM_ALIGN 8
+#endif
+#ifndef KCRC_ALIGN
+#define KCRC_ALIGN 8
+#endif
+#else
+#define __put .long
+#ifndef KSYM_ALIGN
+#define KSYM_ALIGN 4
+#endif
+#ifndef KCRC_ALIGN
+#define KCRC_ALIGN 4
+#endif
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
+#define KSYM(name) _##name
+#else
+#define KSYM(name) name
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * note on .section use: @progbits vs %progbits nastiness doesn't matter,
+ * since we immediately emit into those sections anyway.
+ */
+.macro __EXPORT_SYMBOL name,val,sec
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+	.globl __ksymtab_\name
+	.section ___ksymtab\sec+\name,"a"
+	.balign KSYM_ALIGN
+KSYM(__ksymtab_\name):
+	__put \val, KSYM(__kstrtab_\name)
+	.previous
+	.section __ksymtab_strings,"a"
+KSYM(__kstrtab_\name):
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
+	.asciz "_\name"
+#else
+	.asciz "\name"
+#endif
+	.previous
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
+	.section ___kcrctab\sec+\name,"a"
+	.balign KCRC_ALIGN
+KSYM(__kcrctab_\name):
+	__put KSYM(__crc_\name)
+	.weak	KSYM(__crc_\name)
+	.previous
+#endif
+#endif
+.endm
+#undef __put
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(name) __EXPORT_SYMBOL name,KSYM_FUNC(KSYM(name))
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(name) __EXPORT_SYMBOL name,KSYM_FUNC(KSYM(name)),_gpl
+#define EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL(name) __EXPORT_SYMBOL name,KSYM(name)
+#define EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL_GPL(name) __EXPORT_SYMBOL name,KSYM(name),_gpl
+#endif