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From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: Export flush_cache_page() (needed by lustre)
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:25:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5228CC9C.9020300@bell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378396919.2142.5.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>

On 9/5/2013 12:01 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 11:33 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> ERROR: "flush_cache_page" [drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko] undefined!
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>> ---
>>   arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c |    1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
>> index c035673..b521c0a 100644
>> --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
>> +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
>> @@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long vmaddr, unsigned long
>>   		__flush_cache_page(vma, vmaddr, PFN_PHYS(pfn));
>>   	}
>>   }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_cache_page);
> This is an internal API: no architecture exports this.  Whoever is
> trying to use it needs to use the correct API, so this is the wrong
> patch.
>
There is a declaration for it in arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h.  
There are a bunch
of callers in mm.  The interface in documented in 
Documentation/cachetlb.txt.  We currently
use it in copy_to_user_page and copy_from_user_page.

Dave

-- 
John David Anglin    dave.anglin@bell.net


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05  9:33 [PATCH] parisc: Export flush_cache_page() (needed by lustre) Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-05 16:01 ` James Bottomley
2013-09-05 17:13   ` Kyle McMartin
2013-09-05 18:07     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-05 18:25   ` John David Anglin [this message]

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