Re: [PATCH, RFC 20/62] mm/page_ext: Export lookup_page_ext() symbol

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jun 14 2019 - 07:17:51 EST


On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 05:43:40PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> page_keyid() is inline funcation that uses lookup_page_ext(). KVM is
> going to use page_keyid() and since KVM can be built as a module
> lookup_page_ext() has to be exported.

I _really_ hate having to export world+dog for KVM. This one might not
be a real issue, but I itch every time I see an export for KVM these
days.