Re: [PATCH] mm: add prototype for __add_to_page_cache_locked()

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Sun Dec 27 2020 - 20:05:41 EST


On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 7:54 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:11:36PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 08:31:26AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Can we please make the eBPF code stop referencing this function instead
> > > of papering over this crap? It has no business poking into page cache
> > > internals.
> >
> > The reference from the BPF code is simply "you can inject errors here".
> > And I think we want to be able to inject errors to test the error paths,
> > no?
>
> Something that expects a symbol to be global is just pretty broken.
> I think it need to change so that whatever instrumentation is done can
> coexist with a static function.

Pls read commit description that made it global.
It has nothing to do with bpf.