linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v8 03/14] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:19:23 -0700
From:   Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, juergh@...il.com
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, tycho@...ho.ws,
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        Marco Benatto <marco.antonio.780@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v8 03/14] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page
 Frame Ownership (XPFO)

On 2/14/19 9:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:56:31AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(xpfo_kunmap);
>>
>> And these here things are most definitely not IRQ-safe.
> 
> Should also be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
> 

Agreed. On the other hand, is there even a need to export this? It
should only be called from kunmap() or kunmap_atomic() and not from any
module directly. Same for xpfo_kmap.

Thanks,
Khalid

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