Re: [PATCH] riscv: export boot_cpu_hartid

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Mon Jun 23 2025 - 19:35:12 EST


On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:25:16 PDT (-0700), Conor Dooley wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:58:47PM +0200, Klara Modin wrote:
The mailbox controller driver for the Microchip Inter-processor
Communication can be built as a module. It uses cpuid_to_hartid_map and
commit 4783ce32b080 ("riscv: export __cpuid_to_hartid_map") enables that
to work for SMP. However, cpuid_to_hartid_map uses boot_cpu_hartid on
non-SMP kernels and this driver can be useful in such configurations[1].

Export boot_cpu_hartid so the driver can be built as a module on non-SMP
kernels as well.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250617-confess-reimburse-876101e099cb@spud/ [1]
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: e4b1d67e7141 ("mailbox: add Microchip IPC support")

I'm not sure that this fixes tag is really right, but I have no better
suggestions

Seems OK to me, the driver is what causes the symbol to need the definition, so that patch is the first place we'd need this (unless some other drivers want it, which wouldn't be surprising).

I'm throwing it at the tester, it should show up on fixes soon.

Thanks!

Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index f7c9a1caa83e..14888e5ea19a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ atomic_t hart_lottery __section(".sdata")
#endif
;
unsigned long boot_cpu_hartid;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(boot_cpu_hartid);
/*
* Place kernel memory regions on the resource tree so that
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