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    x86/paravirt: revert exports to restore old behaviour · f97b8954
    Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
    Subdividing the paravirt_ops structure caused a regression in certain
    non-GPL modules which try to use mmu_ops and cpu_ops.  This restores the
    old behaviour, and makes it consistent with the non-CONFIG_PARAVIRT case.
    
    Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> adds:
    > I took at this problem (as I have an nvidia card on one of my
    > workstations), and found out that the following suffer from
    > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL changes:
    >
    > * local_disable_irq(), local_irq_save*(), etc.
    > * MSR-related macros like rdmsr(), wrmsr(), read_cr0(), etc.
    >   wbinvd(), too.
    > * pmd_val(), pgd_val(), etc are all involved with pv_mm_ops.
    >   pmd_large() and pmd_bad() is also indirectly involved.
    >   __flush_tlb() and friends suffer, too.
    
    Christoph Hellwig objects to this patch on the grounds that modules
    shouldn't be using these operations anyway.  I don't think this is a
    particularly good reason to reject the patch, for several reasons:
    
    1. These operations are still available to modules when not using
       CONFIG_PARAVIRT, since they are implicitly exported as inline
       functions via the kernel headers.  Exporting the same functionality as
       GPL-only symbols just adds a gratuitious difference between
       CONFIG_PARAVIRT and non-CONFIG_PARAVIRT configurations.  If we really
       think these operations are not for module use (or non-GPL module use),
       then we should solve the problem in a general way.
    
    2. It's a regression from previous kernels, which would work these
       modules even with CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled.
    
    3. The operations in question seem pretty reasonable for modules to
       use.  The control registers/MSRs can be accessed directly anyway, so there's
       no benefit in preventing modules from using standard interfaces.  And it seems
       reasonable to allow a graphics driver to create its own mappings if it wants.
    
    Therefore, I think this patch should go in for 2.6.24.  If people
    really think that these operations should not be available to modules,
    then we can address that separately.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
    Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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