[PATCH] fix arm64 build with lack of __cpu_logical_map exported

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Aug 8 11:29:58 EDT 2020


On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:42:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> > index 87e81d29e6fb..b421a4756793 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> > @@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ static int __init reserve_memblock_reserved_regions(void)
> >  arch_initcall(reserve_memblock_reserved_regions);
> >  
> >  u64 __cpu_logical_map[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = INVALID_HWID };
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cpu_logical_map);
> 
> This was still under discussion, Sudeep preferring an alternative in the
> driver:
> 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200727172744.GD8003@bogus
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200724131059.GB6521@bogus
> 
> Sumit came with a new diff inline that fixes the driver instead of
> exporting the __cpu_logical_map.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/e3a4bc21-c334-4d48-90b5-aab8d187939e@nvidia.com/

Ok, but having a broken tree is not nice, how did this survive
linux-next testing?

> Sumit, Sudeep, is the above diff sufficient and can it go upstream?

Note that MIPS already export this symbol, so perhaps the drivers that
need it on that platform should also be fixed the same way?

thanks,

greg k-h



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