On 05/17/2013 02:06 PM, Sanjay Lal wrote:
The KVM module uses the standard MIPS cache management routines, which use min_low_pfn.
This creates and indirect dependency, requiring min_low_pfn to be exported.
Signed-off-by: Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c b/arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c
index 6e58e97..0299472 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/ftrace.h>
+#include <linux/bootmem.h>
extern void *__bzero(void *__s, size_t __count);
extern long __strncpy_from_user_nocheck_asm(char *__to,
@@ -60,3 +61,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalid_pte_table);
/* _mcount is defined in arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S */
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_mcount);
#endif
+
+/* The KVM module uses the standard MIPS cache functions which use
+ * min_low_pfn, requiring it to be exported.
+ */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(min_low_pfn);
I think I asked this before, but I don't remember the answer:
Why not put EXPORT_SYMBOL(min_low_pfn) in mm/bootmem.c adjacent to where
the symbol is defined?
Cluttering up the kernel with multiple architectures all doing
architecture specific exports of the same symbol is not a clean way of
doing things.
The second time something needs to be done, it should be factored out
into common code.
David Daney
