question on symbol exports

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Tue Feb 1 18:36:37 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 18:15 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> It appears that in 2.6.9 the ppc64 version of flush_tlb_page() depends 
> on two symbols which are not currently exported: the function 
> __flush_tlb_pending(), and the per-cpu variable ppc64_tlb_batch.
> 
> Is there any particular reason why modules should not be allowed to 
> flush the tlb, or is this an oversight?

can you point at the url to your module source? I suspect modules doing
tlb flushes is the wrong thing, but without seeing the source it's hard
to tell.





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