From 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:50:42 +0100 Subject: module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2) Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute, section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/module.h | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 1c755b2f937d..1d3ccb173fd6 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -308,9 +308,13 @@ struct module #endif #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS - /* We keep the symbol and string tables for kallsyms. */ - Elf_Sym *symtab; - unsigned int num_symtab; + /* + * We keep the symbol and string tables for kallsyms. + * The core_* fields below are temporary, loader-only (they + * could really be discarded after module init). + */ + Elf_Sym *symtab, *core_symtab; + unsigned int num_symtab, core_num_syms; char *strtab; /* Section attributes */ -- cgit From 554bdfe5acf3715e87c8d5e25a4f9a896ac9f014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:51:44 +0100 Subject: module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2) Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not referenced at all for whatever reason). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/module.h | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 1d3ccb173fd6..aca980365956 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ struct module */ Elf_Sym *symtab, *core_symtab; unsigned int num_symtab, core_num_syms; - char *strtab; + char *strtab, *core_strtab; /* Section attributes */ struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs; diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 97f4d5e15535..39827c3d9484 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1886,12 +1886,17 @@ static bool is_core_symbol(const Elf_Sym *src, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, static unsigned long layout_symtab(struct module *mod, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, unsigned int symindex, + unsigned int strindex, const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, - const char *secstrings) + const char *secstrings, + unsigned long *pstroffs, + unsigned long *strmap) { unsigned long symoffs; Elf_Shdr *symsect = sechdrs + symindex; + Elf_Shdr *strsect = sechdrs + strindex; const Elf_Sym *src; + const char *strtab; unsigned int i, nsrc, ndst; /* Put symbol section at end of init part of module. */ @@ -1902,14 +1907,31 @@ static unsigned long layout_symtab(struct module *mod, src = (void *)hdr + symsect->sh_offset; nsrc = symsect->sh_size / sizeof(*src); + strtab = (void *)hdr + strsect->sh_offset; for (ndst = i = 1; i < nsrc; ++i, ++src) - if (is_core_symbol(src, sechdrs, hdr->e_shnum)) + if (is_core_symbol(src, sechdrs, hdr->e_shnum)) { + unsigned int j = src->st_name; + + while(!__test_and_set_bit(j, strmap) && strtab[j]) + ++j; ++ndst; + } /* Append room for core symbols at end of core part. */ symoffs = ALIGN(mod->core_size, symsect->sh_addralign ?: 1); mod->core_size = symoffs + ndst * sizeof(Elf_Sym); + /* Put string table section at end of init part of module. */ + strsect->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC; + strsect->sh_entsize = get_offset(mod, &mod->init_size, strsect, + strindex) | INIT_OFFSET_MASK; + DEBUGP("\t%s\n", secstrings + strsect->sh_name); + + /* Append room for core symbols' strings at end of core part. */ + *pstroffs = mod->core_size; + __set_bit(0, strmap); + mod->core_size += bitmap_weight(strmap, strsect->sh_size); + return symoffs; } @@ -1919,11 +1941,14 @@ static void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, unsigned int symindex, unsigned int strindex, unsigned long symoffs, - const char *secstrings) + unsigned long stroffs, + const char *secstrings, + unsigned long *strmap) { unsigned int i, ndst; const Elf_Sym *src; Elf_Sym *dst; + char *s; mod->symtab = (void *)sechdrs[symindex].sh_addr; mod->num_symtab = sechdrs[symindex].sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Sym); @@ -1941,16 +1966,25 @@ static void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, if (!is_core_symbol(src, sechdrs, shnum)) continue; dst[ndst] = *src; + dst[ndst].st_name = bitmap_weight(strmap, dst[ndst].st_name); ++ndst; } mod->core_num_syms = ndst; + + mod->core_strtab = s = mod->module_core + stroffs; + for (*s = 0, i = 1; i < sechdrs[strindex].sh_size; ++i) + if (test_bit(i, strmap)) + *++s = mod->strtab[i]; } #else static inline unsigned long layout_symtab(struct module *mod, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, unsigned int symindex, + unsigned int strindex, const Elf_Hdr *hdr, - const char *secstrings) + const char *secstrings, + unsigned long *pstroffs, + unsigned long *strmap) { } static inline void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, @@ -1959,7 +1993,9 @@ static inline void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, unsigned int symindex, unsigned int strindex, unsigned long symoffs, - const char *secstrings) + unsigned long stroffs, + const char *secstrings, + const unsigned long *strmap) { } #endif /* CONFIG_KALLSYMS */ @@ -2035,7 +2071,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, long err = 0; void *percpu = NULL, *ptr = NULL; /* Stops spurious gcc warning */ #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS - unsigned long symoffs; + unsigned long symoffs, stroffs, *strmap; #endif mm_segment_t old_fs; @@ -2118,10 +2154,6 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, /* Don't keep modinfo and version sections. */ sechdrs[infoindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; sechdrs[versindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; -#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS - /* Keep string table for decoding later. */ - sechdrs[strindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC; -#endif /* Check module struct version now, before we try to use module. */ if (!check_modstruct_version(sechdrs, versindex, mod)) { @@ -2157,6 +2189,13 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, goto free_hdr; } + strmap = kzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(sechdrs[strindex].sh_size) + * sizeof(long), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!strmap) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto free_mod; + } + if (find_module(mod->name)) { err = -EEXIST; goto free_mod; @@ -2186,7 +2225,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, this is done generically; there doesn't appear to be any special cases for the architectures. */ layout_sections(mod, hdr, sechdrs, secstrings); - symoffs = layout_symtab(mod, sechdrs, symindex, hdr, secstrings); + symoffs = layout_symtab(mod, sechdrs, symindex, strindex, hdr, + secstrings, &stroffs, strmap); /* Do the allocs. */ ptr = module_alloc_update_bounds(mod->core_size); @@ -2392,7 +2432,9 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, sechdrs[pcpuindex].sh_size); add_kallsyms(mod, sechdrs, hdr->e_shnum, symindex, strindex, - symoffs, secstrings); + symoffs, stroffs, secstrings, strmap); + kfree(strmap); + strmap = NULL; if (!mod->taints) { struct _ddebug *debug; @@ -2481,6 +2523,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, percpu_modfree(percpu); free_mod: kfree(args); + kfree(strmap); free_hdr: vfree(hdr); return ERR_PTR(err); @@ -2573,6 +2616,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(init_module, void __user *, umod, #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS mod->num_symtab = mod->core_num_syms; mod->symtab = mod->core_symtab; + mod->strtab = mod->core_strtab; #endif module_free(mod, mod->module_init); mod->module_init = NULL; -- cgit From 1d7015caa082d465faeae5d6fd1be077ee6dfa87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:32:58 -0600 Subject: module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR For the longest time now we've been using multiple MODULE_AUTHOR() statements when a module has more than one author, but the comment here disagrees. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Luciano Coelho Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/module.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index aca980365956..482efc865acf 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ extern struct module __this_module; */ #define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_INFO(license, _license) -/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */ +/* + * Author(s), use "Name " or just "Name", for multiple + * authors use multiple MODULE_AUTHOR() statements/lines. + */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) /* What your module does. */ -- cgit