From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>,
D Jeff Dionne <jeff@uClinux.org>,
Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] mm: export vmalloc_sync_all symbol to GPL modules
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:57:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201215700.GA16782@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322775683-8741-2-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:41:13PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> LTTng needs this symbol exported. It calls it to ensure its tracing
> buffers and allocated data structures never trigger a page fault. This
> is required to handle page fault handler tracing and NMI tracing
> gracefully.
We:
a) don't export symbols unless they have an intree-user
b) especially don't export something as lowlevel as this one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1322775683-8741-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
2011-12-01 21:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-12-01 22:13 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:41 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 23:00 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 21:41 ` [PATCH 03/11] fs/splice: export splice_to_pipe " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-02 7:19 ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-02 12:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:41 ` [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 22:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 22:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 23:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-02 13:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 23:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 23:18 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 23:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:14 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 23:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 23:17 ` Greg KH
2011-12-05 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-06 21:44 ` Greg KH
2011-12-08 5:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-08 23:27 ` Greg KH
2011-12-19 10:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 15:30 ` [lttng-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-20 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 21:46 ` Frank Rowand
2011-12-23 10:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 18:47 ` Aaron Spear
2011-12-21 18:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-23 16:46 ` Perf ABI (was: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules) Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-23 17:21 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-23 18:16 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-25 17:46 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-01-12 14:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-01-12 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 15:39 ` [lttng-dev] Perf ABI (was: " Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-01-12 15:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 15:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 16:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-01-12 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 20:00 ` Greg KH
2012-01-16 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-07 22:57 ` [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-08 5:40 ` Ingo Molnar
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