[PATCH] arm64: export __cpu_{clear,copy}_user_page functions

[Mark Salter]

On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 11:39 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:14:26PM +0100, Mark Salter wrote:
> > The __cpu_clear_user_page() and __cpu_copy_user_page() functions
> > are not currently exported. This prevents modules from using
> > clear_user_page() and opy_user_page().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c
> > index 9aecbac..13bbc3be 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c
> > @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ void __cpu_copy_user_page(void *kto, const void *kfrom, unsigned long vaddr)
> >  	copy_page(kto, kfrom);
> >  	__flush_dcache_area(kto, PAGE_SIZE);
> >  }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cpu_copy_user_page);
> >  
> >  void __cpu_clear_user_page(void *kaddr, unsigned long vaddr)
> >  {
> >  	clear_page(kaddr);
> >  }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cpu_clear_user_page);
> 
> I wonder why we still have these functions. I don't think we need any
> D-cache flushing for copy_user_page(), so we could simply remove this
> code and define copy_user_page() as copy_page() (similarly for
> clear_user_page). I'll post a patch separately removing the copy_page,
> copy_user_page etc. functions (now that we also have optimised memcpy
> and memset).
> 

Even better. I much prefer removing code than adding it. Thanks.