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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	christoffer.dall@linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:14:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140912141429.17d570d1a7e1cb99ec73f0f7@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410553043-575-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:17:23 +0200 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:

> In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by
> modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and
> mips) 'zero_page_mask'.

So hexagon and score get the export if/when needed.

> We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported
> architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers
> to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page
> from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit
> set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/mips/mm/init.c | 1 +
>  arch/s390/mm/init.c | 1 +
>  mm/memory.c         | 2 ++

Looks OK to me.  Please include the patch in whichever tree is is that
needs it, and merge it up via that tree.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-12 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12 20:17 Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-12 21:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-09-12 21:19   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-14 14:23     ` Paolo Bonzini

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