Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:31:07 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [Patch v5 11/16] x86/speculation: Add Spectre v2 app to app protection modes |
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Tim Chen wrote:
> >> +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(spectre_v2_app_lite); > >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spectre_v2_app_lite); > > > > Why would this be exported? The only usage site outside of this code is in > > tlb.c which is hardly modular. > > That was my initial thought too. Ingo suggested to export it in > review of v2. Wonder Ingo has some reason? > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/991759/
But why does it have to be exported at all, irrespective whether _GPL() or not?
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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