Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] x86, mm, pat: Add pgprot_writethrough() for WT

[Toshi Kani]

On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 22:10 +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
wrote:
 :
> > Subject: [PATCH v4 4/7] x86, mm, pat: Add pgprot_writethrough() for
> > WT
> > 
> > This patch adds pgprot_writethrough() for setting WT to a given
> > pgprot_t.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> > index a214f5a..a0264d3 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> > @@ -896,6 +896,16 @@ pgprot_t pgprot_writecombine(pgprot_t prot)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pgprot_writecombine);
> > 
> > +pgprot_t pgprot_writethrough(pgprot_t prot)
> > +{
> > +	if (pat_enabled)
> > +		return __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) |
> > +				cachemode2protval(_PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT));
> > +	else
> > +		return pgprot_noncached(prot);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pgprot_writethrough);
> ...
> 
> Would you be willing to use EXPORT_SYMBOL for the new 
> pgprot_writethrough function to provide more flexibility
> for modules to utilize the new feature?  In x86/mm, 18 of 60
> current exports are GPL and 42 are not GPL.

I simply used EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() since pgprot_writecombine() used
it. :-)  This interface is intended to be used along with
remap_pfn_range() and ioremap_prot(), which are both exported with
EXPORT_SYMBOL().  So, it seems reasonable to export it with
EXPORT_SYMBOL() as well.  I will make this change.

Thanks,
-Toshi

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