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Message-ID: <cb7f49bc-8ed4-a916-44f4-39e360afce41@collabora.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:11:25 +0200
From:   AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
To:     Wei-chin Tsai (蔡維晉) 
        <Wei-chin.Tsai@...iatek.com>,
        "linux@...linux.org.uk" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Lee (李奇錚) <Mel.Lee@...iatek.com>,
        "linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
        wsd_upstream <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "matthias.bgg@...il.com" <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Ivan Tseng (曾志軒) 
        <ivan.tseng@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] memory: export symbols for memory related
 functions

Il 14/06/23 11:59, Wei-chin Tsai (蔡維晉) ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 08:16 +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>>   	
>> External email : Please do not click links or open attachments until
>> you have verified the sender or the content.
>>   On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:20:34AM +0800, Wei Chin Tsai wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
>>> index 0e8ff85890ad..df91412a1069 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
>>> @@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct
>> *vma)
>>>   {
>>>   return is_gate_vma(vma) ? "[vectors]" : NULL;
>>>   }
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_vma_name);
>> ...
>>> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
>>> index b5370fe5c198..a1abe77fcdc3 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/signal.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
>>> @@ -4700,6 +4700,7 @@ __weak const char *arch_vma_name(struct
>> vm_area_struct *vma)
>>>   {
>>>   return NULL;
>>>   }
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_vma_name);
>>
>> Have you confirmed:
>> 1) whether this actually builds
>> 2) whether this results in one or two arch_vma_name exports
>>
>> ?
>>
>> -- 
>> RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
>> FTTP is here! 80Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
> 
> Hi Russell,
> 
> We did confirm that it can be built successfully in kernel 6.1 and run
> well in our system.
> 

It runs well in your system and can be built successfully because you're building
for ARM64, not for ARM...

> Actually, we only use this export symbol "arch_vma_name"
> from kernel/signal.c in arm64. We also export symbol for arch_vma_name
> in arch/arm/kernel/process.c because that, one day in the future,  we
> are afraid that we also need this function in arm platform.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim
> 


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