Subject: [merged] mm-page_allocc-change-mm-debug-routines-back-to-export_symbol.patch removed from -mm tree
To: jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx,jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx,sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:00:13 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: change mm debug routines back to EXPORT_SYMBOL
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_allocc-change-mm-debug-routines-back-to-export_symbol.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: change mm debug routines back to EXPORT_SYMBOL
A new dump_page() routine was recently added, and marked
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. dump_page() was also added to the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
macro, and so the end result is that non-GPL code can no longer call
get_page() and a few other routines.
This only happens if the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
Change dump_page() to be EXPORT_SYMBOL.
Longer explanation:
Prior to 309381feaee564 ("mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE") , it was possible to build MIT-licensed (non-GPL) drivers
on Fedora. Fedora is semi-unique, in that it sets CONFIG_VM_DEBUG.
Because Fedora sets CONFIG_VM_DEBUG, they end up pulling in dump_page(),
via VM_BUG_ON_PAGE, via get_page(). As one of the authors of NVIDIA's
new, open source, "UVM-Lite" kernel module, I originally choose to use the
kernel's get_page() routine from within nvidia_uvm_page_cache.c, because
get_page() has always seemed to be very clearly intended for use by
non-GPL, driver code.
So I'm hoping that making get_page() widely accessible again will not be
too controversial. We did check with Fedora first, and they responded
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074710#c3) that we should
try to get upstream changed, before asking Fedora to change. Their
reasoning seems beneficial to Linux: leaving CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set allows
Fedora to help catch mm bugs.
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-change-mm-debug-routines-back-to-export_symbol mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-change-mm-debug-routines-back-to-export_symbol
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6566,4 +6566,4 @@ void dump_page(struct page *page, const
{
dump_page_badflags(page, reason, 0);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dump_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_page);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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