Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:46 PM Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 25-06-19 12:52:18, Dan Williams wrote: > [...] > > > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst > > > > That document has failed to preclude symbol export fights in the past > > and there is a reasonable argument to try not to

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-06-19 12:52:18, Dan Williams wrote: [...] > > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst > > That document has failed to preclude symbol export fights in the past > and there is a reasonable argument to try not to retract functionality > that had been previously exported regardless

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:01 PM Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 25-06-19 11:03:53, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:01 AM Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > > On Tue 25-06-19 09:23:17, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > >

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-25 Thread Michal Hocko
On Tue 25-06-19 11:03:53, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:01 AM Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > On Tue 25-06-19 09:23:17, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > I asked for this simply because it was not exported

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:01 AM Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 25-06-19 09:23:17, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > I asked for this simply because it was not exported historically. In > > > general I want to establish explicit

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > I asked for this simply because it was not exported historically. In > general I want to establish explicit export-type criteria so the > community can spend less time debating when to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL > [1]. > > The thought in

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:47:57PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote: > On 6/13/19 2:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > noveau is currently using this through an odd hmm wrapper, and I plan > > "nouveau" Meh, I keep misspelling that name. I've already fixed it up a few times for this series along.

Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-13 Thread John Hubbard
On 6/13/19 2:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > noveau is currently using this through an odd hmm wrapper, and I plan "nouveau" > to switch it to the real thing later in this series. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig > --- Reviewed-by: John Hubbard thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA >

[Nouveau] [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma

2019-06-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
noveau is currently using this through an odd hmm wrapper, and I plan to switch it to the real thing later in this series. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- mm/mempolicy.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 01600d80ae01..f9023b5fba37