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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 2/3] GHES: add a notify chain for process memory section
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 08:31:24PM +0800, Xie XiuQi wrote:
> Add a notify chain for process memory section, with
> which other modules might do error recovery.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
> Tested-by: Wang Xiongfeng <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
> Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 10 ++++++++++
> include/acpi/ghes.h | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index cff671d..1f0ebfb 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ static inline bool is_hest_type_generic_v2(struct ghes *ghes)
> static LIST_HEAD(ghes_hed);
> static DEFINE_MUTEX(ghes_list_mutex);
>
> +ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(ghes_mem_err_chain);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ghes_mem_err_chain);

Definitely not EXPORT_SYMBOL.

And certainly not export the notifier head. Have register and unregister
functions instead.

That is, *if* you can't solve it differently with James. Notifiers
should be avoided if possible.

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Boris.

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