On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 08:50 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 03:11:37PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(huge_ptep_modify_prot_start);
> >
> > The only user of this function is the one you added in the last patch
> > in mm/hugetlb.c, so there is no need to export this function.
> >
> > > +
> > > +void huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> > > + pte_t *ptep, pte_t old_pte, pte_t pte)
> > > +{
> > > +
> > > + if (radix_enabled())
> > > + return radix__huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit(vma, addr, ptep,
> > > + old_pte, pte);
> > > + set_huge_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep, pte);
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit);
> >
> > Same here.
>
> That was done considering that ptep_modify_prot_start/commit was defined
> in asm-generic/pgtable.h. I was trying to make sure I didn't break
> anything with the patch. Also s390 do have that EXPORT_SYMBOL() for the
> same. hugetlb just inherited that.
>
> If you feel strongly about it, I can drop the EXPORT_SYMBOL().
At the very least it should be _GPL
Cheers,
Ben.
