Commenting on this patch ended with Andrea's post on 07Jan, which was a more-or-less endorsement and a question about support for extended vma abstractions in kernel modules out of tree. (that comment can be found at http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=135757292605395&w=2) I'd like to make the request again to consider export of these two symbols. We at SGI have a need to address some very high physical address ranges with our GRU (global reference unit), sometimes across partitioned machine boundaries and sometimes with larger addresses than the cpu supports. We do this with the aid of our own 'extended vma' module which mimics the vma. When something (either unmap or exit) frees an 'extended vma' we use the mmu notifiers to clean them up. We had been able to mimic the functions __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() and __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() by locking the per-mm lock and walking the per-mm notifier list. But with the change to a global srcu lock (static in mmu_notifier.c) we can no longer do that. Our module has no access to that lock. So we request that these two functions be exported. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx> --- mm/mmu_notifier.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux/mm/mmu_notifier.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/mmu_notifier.c +++ linux/mm/mmu_notifier.c @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_sta } srcu_read_unlock(&srcu, id); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start); void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) @@ -185,6 +186,7 @@ void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end } srcu_read_unlock(&srcu, id); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end); static int do_mmu_notifier_register(struct mmu_notifier *mn, struct mm_struct *mm, -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Cliff Wickman SGI cpw@xxxxxxx (651) 683-3824 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>