From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64/mm: Export contpte symbols only to GPL users
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:38:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeYHG-0KK91jL8Nq@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240226120321.1055731-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com>
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:03:20PM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> The contpte symbols must be exported since some of the public inline
> ptep_* APIs are called from modules and these inlines now call the
> contpte functions. Originally they were exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL() for
> fear of breaking out-of-tree modules. But we subsequently concluded that
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() should be safe since these functions are deeply core
> mm routines, and any module operating at this level is not going to be
> able to survive on EXPORT_SYMBOL alone.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/f9fc2b31-11cb-4969-8961-9c89fea41b74@nvidia.com/
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-26 12:03 [PATCH 0/2] Address some contpte nits Ryan Roberts
2024-02-26 12:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm64/mm: Export contpte symbols only to GPL users Ryan Roberts
2024-02-26 12:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-26 12:40 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 2:49 ` John Hubbard
2024-03-04 17:38 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2024-02-26 12:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64/mm: Improve comment in contpte_ptep_get_lockless() Ryan Roberts
2024-02-26 12:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-26 12:37 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-26 12:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-27 23:45 ` John Hubbard
2024-03-01 18:47 ` Catalin Marinas
2024-03-04 12:54 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-04 17:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2024-03-04 18:40 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-04 22:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-05 9:13 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-05 9:14 ` Ryan Roberts
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