Re: [patch 0/3] kallsyms: Add gate page and all symbols support

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 22:17 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> > 2 Add in_gate_area_no_task() for use from places where no task is valid.

Can you back that out ? Or at least explain why you need to add this
"no_task" thing and not just use "current" where no task is available ?
I think the above is bogus for 3 reasons:

 - I tend to dislike adding functions
"foo_with_that_parameter_instead_of_that" ... We do it here or there,
but the less we do it, the happier I am :)

 - Since you unconditionally #define in_gate_area() to use
in_gate_area_no_task(), what is the point of having in_gate_area() at
all ? Which rather means, what is the point of adding that "_no_task"
version and not just change in_gate_area to not take a task ?

 - I dislike the fact that you now define the prototype of the function
in the __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA case. I want my arch .h to be the one doing
so, since i want to inline it (to nothing in the ppc64 case since the
vDSO I'm implementing doesn't need any special treatement of the gate
area, it's a normal VMA added to the mm's at exec time).

Ben.