On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:34:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> XFS wants to use this for it's internal in-memory data structures and
> currently duplicates the functionality. Export shmem_kernel_file_setup
> to allow XFS to switch over to using the proper kernel API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks ok,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
--D
> ---
> mm/shmem.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index dae684cd3c99fb..e89fb5eccb0c0a 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -4856,6 +4856,7 @@ struct file *shmem_kernel_file_setup(const char *name, loff_t size, unsigned lon
> {
> return __shmem_file_setup(shm_mnt, name, size, flags, S_PRIVATE);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_kernel_file_setup);
>
> /**
> * shmem_file_setup - get an unlinked file living in tmpfs
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>
