Re: [kvm PATCH 1/2] mm: export __vmalloc_node_range()

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 02:11:59PM -0700, Marc Orr wrote:
> The __vmalloc_node_range() is in the include/linux/vmalloc.h file, but
> it's not exported so it can't be used. This patch exports the API. The
> motivation to export it is so that we can do aligned vmalloc's of KVM
> vcpus.

Would it make more sense to change it to not have __ in front of it?
Also you forgot to CC the linux-mm folks. Doing that for you.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index a728fc492557..9e7974ab1da4 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1763,6 +1763,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>  			  "vmalloc: allocation failure: %lu bytes", real_size);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__vmalloc_node_range);
>  
>  /**
>   *	__vmalloc_node  -  allocate virtually contiguous memory
> -- 
> 2.19.1.568.g152ad8e336-goog
>