Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Apr 2020 18:50:30 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/28] mm: only allow page table mappings for built-in zsmalloc |
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:08:26AM -0700, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:59:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This allows to unexport map_vm_area and unmap_kernel_range, which are > > rather deep internal and should not be available to modules. > > Even though I don't know how many usecase we have using zsmalloc as > module(I heard only once by dumb reason), it could affect existing > users. Thus, please include concrete explanation in the patch to > justify when the complain occurs.
The justification is 'we can unexport functions that have no sane reason of being exported in the first place'.
The Changelog pretty much says that.
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