[PATCH v7 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
From: Alvin Sun <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-27 09:28:48
Also in:
b4-sent, dri-devel, driver-core, linux-block, linux-kselftest, linux-pci, lkml, netdev, nova-gpu, rust-for-linux
Subsystem:
module support, rust, the rest · Maintainers:
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen, Miguel Ojeda, Linus Torvalds
All users have been migrated to `ModuleMetadata::THIS_MODULE` const or `this_module::<LocalModule>()` helper. The `static THIS_MODULE` generated by the `module!` macro is no longer referenced anywhere, so remove it to avoid having two sources of the same `ThisModule` pointer. Assisted-by: opencode:glm-5.2 Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alvin Sun <redacted> --- rust/macros/module.rs | 16 ---------------- 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/rust/macros/module.rs b/rust/macros/module.rs
index aa9a618d5d19e..23b6a1b456b80 100644
--- a/rust/macros/module.rs
+++ b/rust/macros/module.rs@@ -497,22 +497,6 @@ pub(crate) fn module(info: ModuleInfo) -> Result<TokenStream> { /// Used by the printing macros, e.g. [`info!`]. const __LOG_PREFIX: &[u8] = #name_cstr.to_bytes_with_nul(); - // SAFETY: `__this_module` is constructed by the kernel at load time and will not be - // freed until the module is unloaded. - #[cfg(MODULE)] - static THIS_MODULE: ::kernel::ThisModule = unsafe { - extern "C" { - static __this_module: ::kernel::types::Opaque<::kernel::bindings::module>; - }; - - ::kernel::ThisModule::from_ptr(__this_module.get()) - }; - - #[cfg(not(MODULE))] - static THIS_MODULE: ::kernel::ThisModule = unsafe { - ::kernel::ThisModule::from_ptr(::core::ptr::null_mut()) - }; - /// The `LocalModule` type is the type of the module created by `module!`, /// `module_pci_driver!`, `module_platform_driver!`, etc. type LocalModule = #type_;
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