linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: mcpm, perf/arm-cci: export mcpm_is

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Date:   Tue, 29 May 2018 16:33:24 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        nicolas.pitre@...aro.org, robin.murphy@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mcpm, perf/arm-cci: export mcpm_is_available

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:30:14PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Arnd, Russell, [+Nico and Robin]
> 
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 05:44:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Now that the ARM CCI PMU driver can be built as a loadable module,
> > we get a link failure when MCPM is enabled:
> > 
> > ERROR: "mcpm_is_available" [drivers/perf/arm-cci.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > The simplest fix is to export that helper function.
> > 
> > Fixes: 8b0c93c20ef7 ("perf/arm-cci: Allow building as a module")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > ---
> > The patch that caused this is currently part of the arm-perf/for-next/perf
> > branch, it would be good to have the fix there as well.
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/common/mcpm_entry.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> I'm happy to take this via the arm perf tree if others are ok with that.
> Alternatively, I can revert the offending commit if there are objections
> to exporting the symbol.
> 
> Russell: do you any preference?

As it claims to fix 8b0c93c20ef7, which I don't have, I can't take this
patch.  Do we know which tree has this?

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