Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:34:39 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make security_ops EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() |
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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:34:23PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > If people want to remove security_ops, that's fine (not for 2.6.17, but > > > assuming you guys can come to some reasonable agreement, at some later > > > date). But turning it into a GPL-only, but leaving all the infrastructure > > > requiring it is not. > > > > Fair enough, I'll work toward removing security_ops so that it is no > > longer needed at all. > > Ok, that was pretty foolish of me to attempt. We could move all of the > inline functions in security.h to a .c file for when the LSM framework > is enabled, but that might cause some slowdowns. Although I remember > that Kurt Garloff did some work in this area in the past, showing that > moving these out of inline caused some improvements on ia64.
No, those patches didn't deinline anything. Rather eliminated the indirect call via sercurity_ops when possible. I was actually in the process of ressurecting those when this whole thread broke out.
> Anyway, for now I'm not going to worry about this, it isn't that > important...
Agreed ;-)
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