On 08/10/2009 11:53 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread,
> which needs switch_mm (like what fs/aio has).
> export cpu_tlbstate to make this possible
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> index 821e970..e33a5f0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>
> DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate)
> = { &init_mm, 0, };
> +EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_tlbstate);
>
> /*
> * Smarter SMP flushing macros.
Wouldn't it be a *lot* better to move use_mm() from fs/aio.c into common
code, and export that instead?
-hpa
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