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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
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.