From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934351AbbIVS6r (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:58:47 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:42605 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752114AbbIVS6p (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:58:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:57:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andy Lutomirski cc: James Forcier , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , X86 ML , "Juergen Gross , Jan Beulich , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Dave Hansen , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Export cpu_tlbstate as non-GPL symbol In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1442947897-14487-1-git-send-email-csssuf@csssuf.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001,URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:51 AM, James Forcier wrote: > > Exporting cpu_tlbstate as a GPL symbol was introduced in 1e02ce4c; however, this > > breaks non-GPL modules which need to link against it, particularly the AMD > > Catalyst drivers. > > What is AMD Catalyst doing with cpu_tlbstate? Fiddling with it behind the kernels back. Out of tree graphic drivers always have their special needs. Just lookup the discussions about unexporting init_mm .... Thanks, tglx