Re: [PATCH 2/4] sched/core: Export symbols used by cpuidle governors

[Maulik Shah]

Hi Peter,

On 11/25/2021 3:05 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 02:24:39PM +0530, Maulik Shah wrote:
> > Export symbols that are used by cpuidle menu governor in preparation
> > to allow cpuidle governors to be compiled as modules.
> >
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Maulik Shah <quic_mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index 8cffe31..1d031e0 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -5047,6 +5047,7 @@ unsigned int nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu)
> >   {
> >   	return atomic_read(&cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_iowait);
> >   }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(nr_iowait_cpu);
> NACK, that function is batshit insane, exporting it serves nobody.
Thanks for the review.
Exporting is to serve cpuidle menu governor when its compiled as module 
(last patch in this series).

otherwise we get below error during compilation,
ERROR: modpost: "nr_iowait_cpu" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] 
undefined!

Do you suggest to use something else instead of this?
I think making this function inline and moving to linux/sched/stat.h 
(along with dependent data structures) may help but yet to try.

Thanks,
Maulik