modules-6.3-rc1

Nothing exciting at all for modules for v6.3. The biggest change is
 just the change of INSTALL_MOD_DIR from "extra" to "updates" which
 I found lingered for ages for no good reason while testing the CXL
 mock driver [0]. The CXL mock driver has no kconfig integration and requires
 building an external module... and re-building the *rest* of the production
 drivers. This mock driver when loaded but not the production ones will
 crash. All this crap can obviously be fixed by integrating kconfig
 semantics into such test module, however that's not desirable by
 the maintainer, and so sensible defaults must be used to ensure a
 default "make modules_install" will suffice for most distros which
 do not have a file like /etc/depmod.d/dist.conf with something like
 `search updates extra built-in`. Since most distros rely on kmod and
 since its inception the "updates" directory is always in the search
 path it makes more sense to use that than the "extra" which only
 *some* RH based systems rely on. All this stuff has been on linux-next
 for a while.
 
 For v6.4 I already have queued some initial work by Song Liu which gets
 us slowly going to a place where we *may* see a generic allocator for
 huge pages for module text to avoid direct map fragmentation *and*
 reduce iTLB pressure. That work is in its initial stages, no allocator
 work is done yet. This is all just prep work. Fortunately Thomas Gleixner
 has helped convince Song that modules *need* to be *requirement* if we
 are going to see any special allocator touch x86. So who knows... maybe
 around v6.5 we'll start seeing some *real* performance numbers of the
 effect of using huge pages for something other than eBPF toys.
 
 For v6.4 also, you may start seeing patches from Nick Alcock on different
 trees and modules-next which aims at extending kallsyms *eventually* to provide
 clearer address to symbol lookups. The claim is that this is a *great* *feature*
 tracing tools are dying to have so they can for instance disambiguate symbols as
 coming from modules or from other parts of the kernel. I'm still waiting to see
 proper too usage of such stuff, but *how* we lay this out is still being ironed
 out. Part of the initial work I've been pushing for is to help upkeep our
 modules build optimizations, so being mindful about the work by Masahiro Yamada
 on commit 8b41fc4454 ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
 Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf") which helps avoid traversing the build
 tree twice. After this commit we now rely on the MODULE_LICENSE() tag to
 determine in a *faster* way if something being built could be a module and
 we dump this into the modules.builtin so that modprobe can simply succeed
 if a module is known to already be built-in. The cleanup work on MODULE_LICENSE()
 simply stems to assist false positives from userspace for things as built-in
 when they *cannot ever* be modules as we don't even tristate the code as
 modular. This work also helps with the SPDX effort as some code is not clearly
 identified with a tag. In the *future*, once all *possible* modules are
 confirmed to have a respective SPDX tag, we *may* just be able to replace the
 MODULE_LICENSE() to instead be generated automatically through inference of
 the respective module SPDX tags.
 
 [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221209062919.1096779-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
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Merge tag 'modules-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Nothing exciting at all for modules for v6.3.

  The biggest change is just the change of INSTALL_MOD_DIR from "extra"
  to "updates" which I found lingered for ages for no good reason while
  testing the CXL mock driver [0].

  The CXL mock driver has no kconfig integration and requires building
  an external module... and re-building the *rest* of the production
  drivers. This mock driver when loaded but not the production ones will
  crash.

  All this can obviously be fixed by integrating kconfig semantics into
  such test module, however that's not desirable by the maintainer, and
  so sensible defaults must be used to ensure a default "make
  modules_install" will suffice for most distros which do not have a
  file like /etc/depmod.d/dist.conf with something like `search updates
  extra built-in`.

  Since most distros rely on kmod and since its inception the "updates"
  directory is always in the search path it makes more sense to use that
  than the "extra" which only *some* RH based systems rely on.

  All this stuff has been on linux-next for a while"

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221209062919.1096779-1-mcgrof@kernel.org

* tag 'modules-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  Documentation: livepatch: module-elf-format: Remove local klp_modinfo definition
  module.h: Document klp_modinfo struct using kdoc
  module: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()
  kernel/params.c: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()
  test_kmod: stop kernel-doc warnings
  kbuild: Modify default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates

Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst

@@ -298,12 +298,5 @@ A livepatch module's symbol table is accessible through module->symtab.
 Since apply_relocate_add() requires access to a module's section headers,
 symbol table, and relocation section indices, Elf information is preserved for
 livepatch modules and is made accessible by the module loader through
-module->klp_info, which is a klp_modinfo struct. When a livepatch module loads,
-this struct is filled in by the module loader. Its fields are documented below::
-
-	struct klp_modinfo {
-		Elf_Ehdr hdr; /* Elf header */
-		Elf_Shdr *sechdrs; /* Section header table */
-		char *secstrings; /* String table for the section headers */
-		unsigned int symndx; /* The symbol table section index */
-	};
+module->klp_info, which is a :c:type:`klp_modinfo` struct. When a livepatch module
+loads, this struct is filled in by the module loader.

include/linux/module.h

@@ -352,6 +352,14 @@ struct mod_kallsyms {
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
+/**
+ * struct klp_modinfo - Elf information preserved from the livepatch module
+ *
+ * @hdr: Elf header
+ * @sechdrs: Section header table
+ * @secstrings: String table for the section headers
+ * @symndx: The symbol table section index
+ */
 struct klp_modinfo {
 	Elf_Ehdr hdr;
 	Elf_Shdr *sechdrs;

kernel/module/main.c

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/kernel_read_file.h>
+#include <linux/kstrtox.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/elf.h>
@@ -2675,7 +2676,7 @@ static int unknown_module_param_cb(char *param, char *val, const char *modname,
 	int ret;
 
 	if (strcmp(param, "async_probe") == 0) {
-		if (strtobool(val, &mod->async_probe_requested))
+		if (kstrtobool(val, &mod->async_probe_requested))
 			mod->async_probe_requested = true;
 		return 0;
 	}

kernel/params.c

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 */
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/kstrtox.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ int param_set_bool(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
 	if (!val) val = "1";
 
 	/* One of =[yYnN01] */
-	return strtobool(val, kp->arg);
+	return kstrtobool(val, kp->arg);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_set_bool);
 

lib/test_kmod.c

@@ -51,12 +51,11 @@ static int num_test_devs;
 
 /**
  * enum kmod_test_case - linker table test case
- *
- * If you add a  test case, please be sure to review if you need to se
- * @need_mod_put for your tests case.
- *
  * @TEST_KMOD_DRIVER: stress tests request_module()
  * @TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE: stress tests get_fs_type()
+ *
+ * If you add a  test case, please be sure to review if you need to set
+ * @need_mod_put for your tests case.
  */
 enum kmod_test_case {
 	__TEST_KMOD_INVALID = 0,
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ struct test_config {
 struct kmod_test_device;
 
 /**
- * kmod_test_device_info - thread info
+ * struct kmod_test_device_info - thread info
  *
  * @ret_sync: return value if request_module() is used, sync request for
  * 	@TEST_KMOD_DRIVER
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ struct kmod_test_device_info {
 };
 
 /**
- * kmod_test_device - test device to help test kmod
+ * struct kmod_test_device - test device to help test kmod
  *
  * @dev_idx: unique ID for test device
  * @config: configuration for the test

scripts/Makefile.modinst

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ modules := $(call read-file, $(MODORDER))
 ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
 dst := $(MODLIB)/kernel
 else
-INSTALL_MOD_DIR ?= extra
+INSTALL_MOD_DIR ?= updates
 dst := $(MODLIB)/$(INSTALL_MOD_DIR)
 endif