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authorMatthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>2019-09-06 11:32:30 +0100
committerJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>2019-09-10 10:30:31 +0200
commit8e2adc6a00cd96c07fcfa8adfbedbb4be681b8a7 (patch)
tree419b3b83556b171a12b3f1a8784cb498c664974e /include/linux/export.h
parent3d52ec5e5d0dd7f8ca96a68c6756bd96e58b716b (diff)
export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources
To avoid excessive usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(sym, MY_NAMESPACE), where MY_NAMESPACE will always be the namespace we are exporting to, allow exporting all definitions of EXPORT_SYMBOL() and friends by defining DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE. For example, to export all symbols defined in usb-common into the namespace USB_COMMON, add a line like this to drivers/usb/common/Makefile: ccflags-y += -DDEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE=USB_COMMON That is equivalent to changing all EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) definitions to EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(sym, USB_COMMON). Subsequently all symbol namespaces functionality will apply. Another way of making use of this feature is to define the namespace within source or header files similar to how TRACE_SYSTEM defines are used: #undef DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE #define DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE USB_COMMON Please note that, as opposed to TRACE_SYSTEM, DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE has to be defined before including include/linux/export.h. If DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE is defined, a symbol can still be exported to another namespace by using EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and friends with explicitly specifying the namespace. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/export.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/export.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h
index d59461e71478..2c5468d8ea9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/export.h
+++ b/include/linux/export.h
@@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL ___EXPORT_SYMBOL
#endif
+#ifdef DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE
+#undef __EXPORT_SYMBOL
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
+ __EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(sym, sec, DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE)
+#endif
+
#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")