Luck, Tony wrote: > Why does this need to be exported? I'm assuming > that kvm is involved ... but you should provide > some details in the patch so that the GIT commit > will have some descriptive value. Okay, added in the updated version. > Is it a legacy case? If not, then we should use > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Since kvm is only merged into linux-2.6.26 and newer version, we don't need to consider legacy cases. So EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is better, Thanks! Xiantao >From 15760b3bf350de562f7138fc84d128369543f17f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:52:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ia64: Export the symbol ia64_patch_imm64. In kvm module, it uses ia64_patch_imm64 to patch some instructions of itself to reduce cost, when it calls PAL virtualization services. Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c index 6da1f20..b872f54 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c @@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ia64_save_scratch_fpregs); #include <asm/unwind.h> EXPORT_SYMBOL(unw_init_running); +#include <asm/patch.h> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ia64_patch_imm64); + #ifdef ASM_SUPPORTED # ifdef CONFIG_SMP # if (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3) -- 1.5.1
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