From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB9F4468C3A; Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1785851561; cv=none; b=hkVhbqL75nSqZZIAsgZPvGMZgwUHqhMGnM6GMbfkTW0vLCoF+hFANpJue0U623zZ4GePg70dhPak5rHapi6Phdo9NkSqRx58NQXMhvAVLTzUxnW3AjXbuGs8WweNYQt2JprxydnDiI/2rQEleUbeKgsxP32PdVq4ixRM8rfkBkY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1785851561; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WhUHmkc5J/HW9hplYts59m5dTBKS3K9vOiPWjeJO3Ms=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=IRRh88MIuZWaMaoiiLIlyJvA9E425GezI0cFHL3CY7jEvjUlE3WDSz63i+Dwu0R3RKgWNjv1Tet3kcRUZroLHbFjHfqtVcOpUUGLzfb5nDfHRkzIW1qVB2AO2euixZ0P0OvWxnbn2QR8Ezx+afgevlQdAxc/15TwCXQoHNudDUk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=vgQvIYe3; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="vgQvIYe3" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=rBsBBxPlLeU2cDGjgyAGoHsbhtXXZRHRORcMTmjXjSA=; b=vgQvIYe3z6Ore65tumSqUuDxnz +U2H2hNH741oZbMvXYXrdJ6nFxBGS819Sba8ixGYZ86bHaYeBNqS4mIi2e5L91icAEHzArply0lSY 1T5oHAy6EAKI1mILNM8gzTqrQipozzu0rmefbXRhGoJDOM2Nema5H0nlKoIl2iMK/2OItsRncvVxV lnCxuOu3MPBwaN2ygOvsedbuqS8hdzrFEEJWC3cdacqaLbyfIWDmeronLBKRY52QSscdA/f1T9vMt j4YgnerEAW7p5odqowDxwudELDdO4SFZbieE3qA0tsssf7hxotc3OB29J6MFhKLYB5KO4IrKTe47C 9hAM9kGg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wrFZM-00000001yYA-1Tuc; Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:52:36 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 06:52:36 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Boris Brezillon , Thomas Zimmermann , Michal Hocko , Sergio Lopez , Christian Koenig , Huang Rui , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 1/3] mm: export variants of vmf_insert_pfn* for use with pfn_mkwrite() Message-ID: References: <20260731164341.1109827-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20260731164341.1109827-2-pbonzini@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 02:16:33PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmf_insert_pfn_prot); > > If this becomes a dedicated symbol, why not GPL? Yes, no way we'd not export low-level bits like this as non-GPL..