On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 06:27:14PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

Hi Adam,

Thanks. I'd suggest doing x86: or x86/kbuild: prefix for the patch. Also
possibly consider describing what the patch does at a higher level in your
subject line, e.g.:

  x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

Also, it wouldn't hurt to add a little changelog of your own. Describe
problem then solution, e.g.,

  Commit 4efca4ed ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm") adds
  modversion support for symbols exported from asm files. Architectures
  must include C-style declarations for those symbols in asm/asm-prototypes.h
  in order for them to be versioned.

  Add these declarations for x86, and an architecture-independent file that
  can be used for common symbols.

(if you want to use that as-is or rewrite it, no problem).

You can add Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin [off-list ref]

Hi Adam, Nicholas,

Thanks for the patch! I have confirmed that this fixes the defconfig and
the normal .config build I use for debugging, so:

Tested-by: Peter Wu <redacted>

It might also be worth to mention in the changelog the user impact,
namely that kernels may fail to load modules at all when
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y.

Kind regards,
Peter

Also it's not a big deal, but if you redo the patch, you could consider
splitting it into two (first add the generic header, then the x86 header),
but both can go via the x86 tree.

Thanks,
Nick

On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:39:45 +0100
Adam Borowski [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Nicholas Piggin wrote:

quoted

Architectures will need to have an include/asm/asm-prototypes.h that
defines or #include<>s C-style prototypes for exported asm functions.
We can do an asm-generic version for the common ones like memset so
there's not a lot of pointless duplication there.  

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <redacted>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h  |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
 create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae87224
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#include <asm/ftrace.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/string.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/checksum.h>
+
+#include <asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h>
+
+#include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#include <asm/special_insns.h>
+#include <asm/preempt.h>

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h b/include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df13637
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+extern void *__memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void *__memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void *__memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void *memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
+extern void *memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);