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Use the tables added in the previous commits to introduce a new /proc/kallmodsyms, in which [module names] are also given for things that *could* have been modular had they not been built in to the kernel. So symbols that are part of, say, ext4 are reported as [ext4] even if ext4 happens to be buiilt in to the kernel in this configuration. Symbols that are part of multiple modules at the same time are shown with [multiple] [module names]: consumers will have to be ready to handle such lines. Also, kernel symbols for built-in modules will be sorted by size, as usual for the core kernel, so will probably appear interspersed with other symbols that are part of different modules and non-modular always-built-in symbols, which, as usual, have no square-bracketed module denotation. This differs from /proc/kallsyms, where all symbols associated with a module will always appear in a group (and randomly ordered). The result looks like this: ffffffff8b013d20 t pt_buffer_setup_aux ffffffff8b014130 T intel_pt_interrupt ffffffff8b014250 T cpu_emergency_stop_pt ffffffff8b014280 t rapl_pmu_event_init [intel_rapl_perf] ffffffff8b0143c0 t rapl_event_update [intel_rapl_perf] ffffffff8b014480 t rapl_pmu_event_read [intel_rapl_perf] ffffffff8b014490 t rapl_cpu_offline [intel_rapl_perf] ffffffff8b014540 t __rapl_event_show [intel_rapl_perf] ffffffff8b014570 t rapl_pmu_event_stop [intel_rapl_perf] This is emitted even if intel_rapl_perf is built into the kernel (but, obviously, not if it's not in the .config at all, or is in a module that is not loaded). Further down, we see what happens when object files are reused by multiple modules, all of which are built in to the kernel: ffffffffa22b3aa0 t handle_timestamp [liquidio] ffffffffa22b3b50 t free_netbuf [liquidio] ffffffffa22b3ba0 t liquidio_ptp_settime [liquidio] ffffffffa22b3c30 t liquidio_ptp_adjfreq [liquidio] [...] ffffffffa22b9490 t lio_vf_rep_create [liquidio] ffffffffa22b96a0 t lio_vf_rep_destroy [liquidio] ffffffffa22b9810 t lio_vf_rep_modinit [liquidio] ffffffffa22b9830 t lio_vf_rep_modexit [liquidio] ffffffffa22b9850 t lio_ethtool_get_channels [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22b9930 t lio_ethtool_get_ringparam [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22b99d0 t lio_get_msglevel [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22b99f0 t lio_vf_set_msglevel [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22b9a10 t lio_get_pauseparam [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22b9a40 t lio_get_ethtool_stats [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22ba180 t lio_vf_get_ethtool_stats [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22ba4f0 t lio_get_regs_len [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22ba530 t lio_get_priv_flags [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22ba550 t lio_set_priv_flags [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22ba580 t lio_set_fecparam [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22ba5f0 t lio_get_fecparam [liquidio] [liquidio_vf] [...] ffffffffa22cbd10 t liquidio_set_mac [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22cbe90 t handle_timestamp [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22cbf40 t free_netbuf [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22cbf90 t octnet_link_status_change [liquidio_vf] ffffffffa22cbfc0 t liquidio_vxlan_port_command.constprop.0 [liquidio_vf] Like /proc/kallsyms, the output is driven by address, so keeps the curious property of /proc/kallsyms that symbols (like free_netbuf above) may appear repeatedly with different addresses: but now, unlike in /proc/kallsyms, we can see that those symbols appear repeatedly because they are *different symbols* that ultimately belong to different modules, all of which are built in to the kernel. As with /proc/kallsyms, non-root usage produces addresses that are all zero. I am not wedded to the name or format of /proc/kallmodsyms, but felt it best to split it out of /proc/kallsyms to avoid breaking existing kallsyms parsers. Another possible syntax might be to use {curly brackets} or something to denote built-in modules: it might be possible to drop /proc/kallmodsyms and make /proc/kallsyms emit things in this format. (Equally, now kallmodsyms data uses very little space, the CONFIG_KALLMODSYMS config option might be something people don't want to bother with.) Internally, this uses a new kallsyms_builtin_module_address() almost identical to kallsyms_sym_address() to get the address corresponding to a given .kallsyms_modules index, and a new get_builtin_module_idx quite similar to get_symbol_pos to determine the index in the .kallsyms_modules array that relates to a given address. Save a little time by exploiting the fact that all callers will only ever traverse this list from start to end by allowing them to pass in the previous index returned from this function as a hint: thus very few bsearches are actually needed. (In theory this could change to just walk straight down kallsyms_module_addresses/offsets and not bother bsearching at all, but doing it this way is hardly any slower and much more robust.) The display process is complicated a little by the weird format of the .kallsyms_module_names table: we have to look for multimodule entries and print them as space-separated lists of module names. Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
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