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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/28] mm: only allow page table mappings for built-in zsmalloc
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:50:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:08:26AM -0700, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:59:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > This allows to unexport map_vm_area and unmap_kernel_range, which are
> > > rather deep internal and should not be available to modules.
> >
> > Even though I don't know how many usecase we have using zsmalloc as
> > module(I heard only once by dumb reason), it could affect existing
> > users. Thus, please include concrete explanation in the patch to
> > justify when the complain occurs.
>
> The justification is 'we can unexport functions that have no sane reason
> of being exported in the first place'.
>
> The Changelog pretty much says that.

Okay, I hope there is no affected user since this patch.
If there are someone, they need to provide sane reason why they want
to have zsmalloc as module.

Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

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