linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/7] block: export some API

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Message-ID: <ZnEzyJW9WAX0Rjsx@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:14:16 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc: axboe@...nel.dk, tj@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/7] block: export some API

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 11:17:47AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
>  bool blkcg_debug_stats = false;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkcg_debug_stats);

exporting variables is lways a bad idea.a

>  
>  static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(blkg_stat_lock);
>  
> @@ -688,6 +689,7 @@ const char *blkg_dev_name(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
>  		return NULL;
>  	return bdi_dev_name(blkg->q->disk->bdi);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkg_dev_name);

And this helper is just horribly to be honest.  The bdi_dev_name
should not be used anywhere in block code, and something like this
certainly should not be exported even if we have to keep it for
legacy reasons.

>  /**
>   * blkcg_print_blkgs - helper for printing per-blkg data
> @@ -815,6 +817,7 @@ int blkg_conf_open_bdev(struct blkg_conf_ctx *ctx)
>  	ctx->bdev = bdev;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkg_conf_open_bdev);

This again is a horrible function papeing over blk-cgroup design
mistakes.  I absolutely should not be exported.