[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/p2m: Export set_phys_to_machine.
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:06:02PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 06.09.13 at 16:00, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> wrote: > > We have already exported 'get_phys_to_machine' and there are > > third-party drivers that depend on this other symbol. As such > > lets make this balanced and also export this symbol. > > I tend to disagree: Allowing external modules read access to some > internal state is quite different from also allowing them to alter it. I am not following you. We have drivers in the kernel that do this now. For example xen-netfront uses set_phys_to_machine. Oddly it can be built as a module. I am wondering how it actually works without this EXPORT symbol. > > Jan > > > Reported-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c > > index 0d4ec35..cdb96bc 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c > > @@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ bool set_phys_to_machine(unsigned long pfn, unsigned > > long mfn) > > > > return true; > > } > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_phys_to_machine); > > > > #define M2P_OVERRIDE_HASH_SHIFT 10 > > #define M2P_OVERRIDE_HASH (1 << M2P_OVERRIDE_HASH_SHIFT) > > -- > > 1.8.3.1 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xen-devel mailing list > > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel > > > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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