From b2e3e658b344c6bcfb8fb694100ab2f2b5b2edb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:03:39 -0800 Subject: Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file This adds some new magic in the MODPOST phase for CONFIG_MARKERS. Analogous to the Module.symvers file, the build will now write a Module.markers file when CONFIG_MARKERS=y is set. This file lists the name, defining module, and format string of each marker, separated by \t characters. This simple text file can be used by offline build procedures for instrumentation code, analogous to how System.map and Module.symvers can be useful to have for kernels other than the one you are running right now. The strings are made easy to extract by having the __trace_mark macro define the name and format together in a single array called __mstrtab_* in the __markers_strings section. This is straightforward and reliable as long as the marker structs are always defined by this macro. It is an unreasonable amount of hairy work to extract the string pointers from the __markers section structs, which entails handling a relocation type for every machine under the sun. Mathieu : - Ran through checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: David Smith Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/mod/modpost.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts/mod/modpost.h') diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.h b/scripts/mod/modpost.h index 999f15e0e008..565c5872407e 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.h +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.h @@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ struct module { int has_init; int has_cleanup; struct buffer dev_table_buf; + char **markers; + size_t nmarkers; char srcversion[25]; }; @@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ struct elf_info { Elf_Section export_gpl_sec; Elf_Section export_unused_gpl_sec; Elf_Section export_gpl_future_sec; + Elf_Section markers_strings_sec; const char *strtab; char *modinfo; unsigned int modinfo_len; -- cgit v1.2.3