From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn() Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:23:27 +0200 Message-ID: <5415A4DF.90706@redhat.com> References: <1410553043-575-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <20140912141429.17d570d1a7e1cb99ec73f0f7@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: Ard Biesheuvel , Andrew Morton Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Christoffer Dall , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com List-ID: Il 12/09/2014 23:19, Ard Biesheuvel ha scritto: > On 12 September 2014 23:14, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:17:23 +0200 Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> >>> In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by >>> modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and >>> mips) 'zero_page_mask'. >> >> So hexagon and score get the export if/when needed. >> > > Exactly. > >>> We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported >>> architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers >>> to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page >>> from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit >>> set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel >>> --- >>> arch/mips/mm/init.c | 1 + >>> arch/s390/mm/init.c | 1 + >>> mm/memory.c | 2 ++ >> >> Looks OK to me. Please include the patch in whichever tree is is that >> needs it, and merge it up via that tree. >> > > Thanks. > > @Paolo: could you please take this (with Andrew's ack), and put it > before the patch you took earlier today? Yes, will do. Paolo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org