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From: Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] time/namespace: export init_time_ns and do_timens_ktime_to_host
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 14:33:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260528063311.3300393-2-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260528063311.3300393-1-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>

The inline timens_ktime_to_host() in <linux/time_namespace.h> compares
the current time namespace against init_time_ns for the fast path. It
calls do_timens_ktime_to_host() for the offset case. Both symbols are
needed at link time by any caller of the inline.

All current callers are in the kernel itself (timerfd, posix-timers,
alarmtimer, posix-stubs, futex, io_uring). The next caller is a module
(ntsync), which fails to load because neither symbol is exported.

Export both with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. The header already declares
init_time_ns extern, so this only makes the symbols linkable from
modules.

Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/time/namespace.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/namespace.c b/kernel/time/namespace.c
index 4bca3f78c8ea..5fa0af66cf3f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/time/namespace.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ ktime_t do_timens_ktime_to_host(clockid_t clockid, ktime_t tim,
 
 	return tim;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_timens_ktime_to_host);
 
 static struct ucounts *inc_time_namespaces(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
@@ -351,6 +352,7 @@ struct time_namespace init_time_ns = {
 	.user_ns	= &init_user_ns,
 	.frozen_offsets	= true,
 };
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_time_ns);
 
 void __init time_ns_init(void)
 {
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-28  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-28  6:33 [PATCH 0/2] ntsync: honour time namespace offset in absolute MONOTONIC timeouts Maoyi Xie
2026-05-28  6:33 ` Maoyi Xie [this message]
2026-06-02 19:08   ` [tip: timers/core] time/namespace: Export init_time_ns and do_timens_ktime_to_host() tip-bot2 for Maoyi Xie
2026-05-28  6:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] ntsync: honour caller's time namespace for absolute MONOTONIC timeouts Maoyi Xie
2026-06-01 22:12   ` Elizabeth Figura
2026-06-02 19:08   ` [tip: timers/core] ntsync: Honour " tip-bot2 for Maoyi Xie

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