[PATCH v2 01/11] RISC-V: Define helper functions expose hpm counter width and count

Atish Patra atishp at atishpatra.org
Tue Jan 24 12:41:33 PST 2023


On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:22 PM Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Atish Kumar Patra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 2:06 AM Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 09:00:36AM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> ...
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(riscv_pmu_get_hpm_info);
> > >
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ?
> > >
> >
> > Is that mandatory ? I have seen usage of both in arch/riscv and other
> > places though.
> > I am also not sure if any other non-GPL module should/need access to this.
>
> TBH, I'm not sure what the best policy is, but I presumed we should use
> _GPL when we aren't aware of anything non-GPL and then when a day comes
> that something non-GPL would like this to be exported, the patch that
> flips it will provide the justification in its commit message.
>

Sgtm. Changed it to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for now.

> Thanks,
> drew



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Regards,
Atish



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