From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>,
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>,
Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: module: update file references
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:17:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220613081741.1699713-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)
Adjust documents to the file moves made by commit cfc1d277891e ("module:
Move all into module/").
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---
I did not touch
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/kernel-api.rst
because I cannot modify it.
Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 4 ++--
Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst | 10 +++++-----
.../translations/it_IT/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 6 +++---
.../translations/zh_CN/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 2 +-
5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
index d6b3f94b9f1f..0793c400d4b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Module Loading
Inter Module support
--------------------
-Refer to the file kernel/module.c for more information.
+Refer to the files in kernel/module/ for more information.
Hardware Interfaces
===================
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
index 5ad9e0abe42c..12e4aecdae94 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ namespace ``USB_STORAGE``, use::
The corresponding ksymtab entry struct ``kernel_symbol`` will have the member
``namespace`` set accordingly. A symbol that is exported without a namespace will
refer to ``NULL``. There is no default namespace if none is defined. ``modpost``
-and kernel/module.c make use the namespace at build time or module load time,
-respectively.
+and kernel/module/main.c make use the namespace at build time or module load
+time, respectively.
2.2 Using the DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE define
=============================================
diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst b/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst
index dbe9b400e39f..7347638895a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst
+++ b/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ module->symtab.
=====================================
Normally, a stripped down copy of a module's symbol table (containing only
"core" symbols) is made available through module->symtab (See layout_symtab()
-in kernel/module.c). For livepatch modules, the symbol table copied into memory
-on module load must be exactly the same as the symbol table produced when the
-patch module was compiled. This is because the relocations in each livepatch
-relocation section refer to their respective symbols with their symbol indices,
-and the original symbol indices (and thus the symtab ordering) must be
+in kernel/module/kallsyms.c). For livepatch modules, the symbol table copied
+into memory on module load must be exactly the same as the symbol table produced
+when the patch module was compiled. This is because the relocations in each
+livepatch relocation section refer to their respective symbols with their symbol
+indices, and the original symbol indices (and thus the symtab ordering) must be
preserved in order for apply_relocate_add() to find the right symbol.
For example, take this particular rela from a livepatch module:::
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
index 42f5d04e38ec..0f6898860d6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ Di conseguenza, nella tabella dei simboli del kernel ci sarà una voce
rappresentata dalla struttura ``kernel_symbol`` che avrà il campo
``namespace`` (spazio dei nomi) impostato. Un simbolo esportato senza uno spazio
dei nomi avrà questo campo impostato a ``NULL``. Non esiste uno spazio dei nomi
-di base. Il programma ``modpost`` e il codice in kernel/module.c usano lo spazio
-dei nomi, rispettivamente, durante la compilazione e durante il caricamento
-di un modulo.
+di base. Il programma ``modpost`` e il codice in kernel/module/main.c usano lo
+spazio dei nomi, rispettivamente, durante la compilazione e durante il
+caricamento di un modulo.
2.2 Usare il simbolo di preprocessore DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE
==============================================================
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
index 6abf7ed534ca..bb16f0611046 100644
--- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
相应的 ksymtab 条目结构体 ``kernel_symbol`` 将有相应的成员 ``命名空间`` 集。
导出时未指明命名空间的符号将指向 ``NULL`` 。如果没有定义命名空间，则默认没有。
-``modpost`` 和kernel/module.c分别在构建时或模块加载时使用名称空间。
+``modpost`` 和kernel/module/main.c分别在构建时或模块加载时使用名称空间。
2.2 使用DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE定义
====================================
--
2.32.0
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2022-06-13 8:17 Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2022-06-14 12:28 ` [PATCH] doc: module: update file references Yanteng Si
2022-06-14 21:32 ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-07-01 21:48 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-07-01 21:49 ` Luis Chamberlain
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