From: Scott Wood <hidden> Date: 2012-08-10 22:21:34
This fixes breakage introduced by the following commit:
commit 6d2d82627f4f1e96a33664ace494fa363e0495cb
Author: Liu Yu-B13201 [off-list ref]
Date: Tue Jul 3 05:48:56 2012 +0000
PPC: Don't use hardcoded opcode for ePAPR hcall invocation
when a driver that uses ePAPR hypercalls is built as a module.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <redacted>
---
Sending to Alex even though this isn't KVM-specific since the commit it
fixes is still only in his tree (and linux-next).
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Scott Wood [off-list ref] wrote:
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(epapr_hypercall_start);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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From: Alexander Graf <hidden> Date: 2012-08-11 13:10:32
On 11.08.2012, at 00:21, Scott Wood wrote:
This fixes breakage introduced by the following commit:
commit 6d2d82627f4f1e96a33664ace494fa363e0495cb
Author: Liu Yu-B13201 [off-list ref]
Date: Tue Jul 3 05:48:56 2012 +0000
PPC: Don't use hardcoded opcode for ePAPR hcall invocation
when a driver that uses ePAPR hypercalls is built as a module.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <redacted>
---
Sending to Alex even though this isn't KVM-specific since the commit it
fixes is still only in his tree (and linux-next).
From: Scott Wood <hidden> Date: 2012-08-13 17:29:23
On 08/11/2012 08:07 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Scott Wood [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(epapr_hypercall_start);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?
We prefer EXPORT_SYMBOL. We don't want to restrict our customers from
having to use GPL code.
More specifically in this case, I don't see how use of this symbol in
any way suggests that the code would be GPL-derivative. The API is
documented in the ePAPR standard or other external sources -- not a
kernel internal implementation issue. The contents of
epapr_hypercall_start itself are not copyrightable (by default it's
basically "return -1", and is patched at runtime with a few instructions
provided by the hypervisor). The header file with the inline accessors
is dual licensed (and also unlikely to be copyrightable, in terms of
what actually makes it into the output binary).
-Scott