Re: [PATCH] x86: Make cpu_tss available to external modules

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue May 05 2015 - 09:59:38 EST


On May 4, 2015 11:46 PM, "Marc Dionne" <marc.c.dionne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 75182b1632 ("x86/asm/entry: Switch all C consumers of
> kernel_stack to this_cpu_sp0()") changed current_thread_info
> to use this_cpu_sp0, and indirectly made it rely on init_tss
> which was exported with EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL.
> As a result some macros and inline functions such as set/get_fs,
> test_thread_flag and variants have been made unusable for
> external modules.

This is okay with me. I have my doubts as to whether set_fs/get_fs is
a sane interface at all, let alone in non-GPL modules, but both it and
cond_resched (my best guess as to the test_thread_flag offender) have
plenty of historical precedent for non-GPL use, and I didn't intend to
break that.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
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