Re: [PATCH RFT 1/3] mm: export variants of vmf_insert_pfn* for use with pfn_mkwrite()

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 8/4/26 15:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..

David requested to turn the simpler functions such as vmf_insert_pfn() 
from separate exports to static inlines.  For the v2 that I have just 
posted, that's what I did.  I can either use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() or 
switch to inlines, but not both because functions like vmf_insert_pfn() 
are currently EXPORT_SYMBOL().

Also, this function specifically is basically the same as 
vmf_insert_pfn_prot(), which is already exported as non GPL, but there's 
really no logic at all as to what is EXPORT_SYMBOL() and what is 
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().  vmf_insert_pfn_prot() mucks with pgprot_t and is 
much lower level than vmf_insert_page_mkwrite()... but it's the latter 
that is GPL.

Paolo