Re: [PATCH 4/4] modpost: do not set ->preloaded for symbols from Module.symvers

[Jeff Moyer]

Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 1:51 AM Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Now that there is no overwrap between symbols from ELF files and
>> > ones from Module.symvers.
>> >
>> > So, the 'exported twice' warning should be reported irrespective
>> > of where the symbol in question came from. Only the exceptional case
>> > is when __crc_<sym> symbol appears before __ksymtab_<sym>. This
>> > typically occurs for EXPORT_SYMBOL in .S files.
>>
>> Hi, Masahiro,
>>
>> After apply this patch, I get the following modpost warnings when doing:
>>
>> $ make M=tools/tesing/nvdimm
>> ...
>>   Building modules, stage 2.
>>   MODPOST 12 modules
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'nvdimm_bus_lock' exported
>> twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'nvdimm_bus_unlock'
>> exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'is_nvdimm_bus_locked'
>> exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'devm_nvdimm_memremap'
>> exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'nd_fletcher64' exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'to_nd_desc' exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> WARNING: tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm: 'to_nvdimm_bus_dev'
>> exported twice. Previous export was in drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
>> ...
>>
>> There are a lot of these warnings.  :)
>
> These warnings are correct since
> drivers/nvdimm/Makefile and
> tools/testing/nvdimm/Kbuild
> compile the same files.

Yeah, but that's by design.  Is there a way to silence these warnings?

-Jeff