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authorQuentin Perret <qperret@google.com>2020-02-28 17:20:13 +0000
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-03-03 20:49:21 +0900
commit1518c633df78185f5cbd7322b52ef06358febac3 (patch)
treea8f89ec099124fca8669acdcae5e0df98889aa7c /init
parent2a86f6612164a10a3cdb6a499bddf329c4d69f84 (diff)
downloadlinux-1518c633df78185f5cbd7322b52ef06358febac3.tar.bz2
kbuild: allow symbol whitelisting with TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS currently removes all unused exported symbols from ksymtab. This works really well when using in-tree drivers, but cannot be used in its current form if some of them are out-of-tree. Indeed, even if the list of symbols required by out-of-tree drivers is known at compile time, the only solution today to guarantee these don't get trimmed is to set CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=n. This not only wastes space, but also makes it difficult to control the ABI usable by vendor modules in distribution kernels such as Android. Being able to control the kernel ABI surface is particularly useful to ship a unique Generic Kernel Image (GKI) for all vendors, which is a first step in the direction of getting all vendors to contribute their code upstream. As such, attempt to improve the situation by enabling users to specify a symbol 'whitelist' at compile time. Any symbol specified in this whitelist will be kept exported when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is set, even if it has no in-tree user. The whitelist is defined as a simple text file, listing symbols, one per line. Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 240c1ed15c69..9f2f10cfb097 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -2207,6 +2207,19 @@ config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
If unsure, or if you need to build out-of-tree modules, say N.
+config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
+ string "Whitelist of symbols to keep in ksymtab"
+ depends on TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
+ help
+ By default, all unused exported symbols will be un-exported from the
+ build when TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is selected.
+
+ UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST allows to whitelist symbols that must be kept
+ exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
+ set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
+ one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
+ source tree.
+
endif # MODULES
config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP