linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched/cputime: Remove symbol exports from IRQ time accounting

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Message-ID: <6c42e7f1-ace6-a433-4472-9463b1022128@de.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 20:28:29 +0100
From:   Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched/cputime: Remove symbol exports from IRQ time
 accounting



On 02.12.20 12:57, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> account_irq_enter_time() and account_irq_exit_time() are not called
> from modules. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() can be safely removed from the IRQ
> cputime accounting functions called from there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c | 10 +++++-----
>  kernel/sched/cputime.c   |  2 --
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c b/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
> index 8df10d3c8f6c..f9f2a11958a5 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c
> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ void vtime_flush(struct task_struct *tsk)
>   * Update process times based on virtual cpu times stored by entry.S
>   * to the lowcore fields user_timer, system_timer & steal_clock.
>   */
> -void vtime_account_irq_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +void vtime_account_kernel(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>  	u64 timer;
>  
> @@ -245,12 +245,12 @@ void vtime_account_irq_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  
>  	virt_timer_forward(timer);
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_irq_enter);
> -
> -void vtime_account_kernel(struct task_struct *tsk)
> -__attribute__((alias("vtime_account_irq_enter")));
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vtime_account_kernel);
>  
> +void vtime_account_irq_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +__attribute__((alias("vtime_account_kernel")));
> +
> +

One new line is enough I think. Apart from that this looks sane from an s390 perspective.
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>