[PATCH v6 1/2] powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm,thread-groups"

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Aug 13 16:43:21 AEST 2018


On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 06:27:43AM -0700, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> * Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-08-09 11:02:07]:
> 
> > 
> >  int threads_per_core, threads_per_subcore, threads_shift;
> > +bool has_big_cores;
> >  cpumask_t threads_core_mask;
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_per_core);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_per_subcore);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_shift);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(has_big_cores);
> 
> Why do we need EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?

Because it is deeply internal, and in that matches the other related
exports.


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