From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:08:13 -0700 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] mm: only allow page table mappings for built-in zsmalloc Message-ID: <20200409170813.GD247701@google.com> References: <20200408115926.1467567-1-hch@lst.de> <20200408115926.1467567-11-hch@lst.de> <20200409160826.GC247701@google.com> <20200409165030.GG20713@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200409165030.GG20713@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Sender: bpf-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang , Stephen Hemminger , Wei Liu , x86@kernel.org, David Airlie , Daniel Vetter , Laura Abbott , Sumit Semwal , Sakari Ailus , Nitin Gupta , Robin Murphy , Christophe Leroy , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:50:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:08:26AM -0700, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:59:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > This allows to unexport map_vm_area and unmap_kernel_range, which are > > > rather deep internal and should not be available to modules. > > > > Even though I don't know how many usecase we have using zsmalloc as > > module(I heard only once by dumb reason), it could affect existing > > users. Thus, please include concrete explanation in the patch to > > justify when the complain occurs. > > The justification is 'we can unexport functions that have no sane reason > of being exported in the first place'. > > The Changelog pretty much says that. Okay, I hope there is no affected user since this patch. If there are someone, they need to provide sane reason why they want to have zsmalloc as module. Acked-by: Minchan Kim