linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ARM: xen: unexport HYPERVISOR_platform

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Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 18:20:15 +0100
From:   Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "Denis Efremov" <efremov@...ux.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ARM: xen: unexport HYPERVISOR_platform_op
 function

On 06/09/2019 17:00, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:55 PM Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com> wrote:
>> On 06/09/2019 16:39, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> HYPERVISOR_platform_op() is an inline function and should not
>>> be exported. Since commit 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for
>>> static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions"), this causes a warning:
>>>
>>> WARNING: "HYPERVISOR_platform_op" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>>>
>>> Remove the extraneous export.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions")
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> Something is wonky.  That symbol is (/ really ought to be) in the
>> hypercall page and most definitely not inline.
>>
>> Which tree is that changeset from?  I can't find the SHA.
> This is from linux-next, I think from the kbuild tree.

Thanks.

Julien/Stefano: Why are any of these hypercalls out-of-line?  ARM
doesn't use the hypercall page, and there is no argument translation
(not even in arm32 as there are no 5-argument hypercalls declared).

They'd surely be easier to implement with a few static inlines and some
common code, than to try and replicate the x86 side hypercall_page
interface ?

~Andrew