On 19 January 2017 at 00:15, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Ard Biesheuvel > <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> For a ballpark number of 10,000 CRCs in the core kernel, this would >> increase the size of the image by 40 KB for 32-bit architectures (and >> if saving 40 KB is essential, chances are you won't be using >> modversions in the first place). > > As you say, I don't think the space issue is much of a problem. > > I'm more worried about the replacement of one crazy model that has > problems due to linker subtlety with _another_ one. > > Your genksyms.c change is not exactly obvious. I looked at it, and my > brain just shut down. Why both the > > LONG(0x%08lx); > > _and_ the > > "%s__crc_%s = 0x%08lx;\n" > > in the linker script? I'm sure there's a good reason, but I'd like to > see a more explicit explanation fo what the generated linker script > does and what the rules are. >
This is simply because modpost still uses the value of the symbol rather than the value it points to to generate the /other/ side of the comparison (i.e., Module.symvers etc) I will look into updating modpost to dereference the symbol as well, and update the RFC patch accordingly.