On 9/11/26 4:40 PM, Petr Pavlu wrote: > linux/module.h appears in roughly 15k #include directives across the > kernel. This makes it a "hot" header, so it should avoid pulling in > unnecessary definitions. > > The header currently includes linux/elf.h but this is largely unnecessary > because it requires only the base ELF structures, such as Elf_Ehdr and > Elf_Sym, which are declared in uapi/linux/elf.h. > > Replace the linux/elf.h include with uapi/linux/elf.h. On x86_64_defconfig, > including linux/module.h alone results in 2.2 MB of preprocessed data. This > change reduces that to 1.5 MB. > > The first five patches are cleanups to avoid relying on declarations being > indirectly provided through linux/module.h -> linux/elf.h. These patches > are mostly independent and can go through their respective trees if > preferred, except for the cpufeature patch, which depends on the preceding > s390 cleanup. The final module patch depends on all of these changes. > > It is hard to identify all files that indirectly reference something only > through linux/module.h -> linux/elf.h. The changes were build-tested with > allmodconfig on arm, arm64, m68k, mips, powerpc64, riscv, s390, x86_64.
I plan to pick up this series on modules-next by the end of the week. Acked-by tags from the relevant maintainers would be appreciated. -- Thanks, Petr
