Hi David, On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:25:24AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > On 2/25/26 17:41, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > The CMA dma-buf heap uses cma_alloc() and cma_release() to allocate and > > free, respectively, its CMA buffers. > > > > However, these functions are not exported. Since we want to turn the CMA > > heap into a module, let's export them both. > > > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]> > > --- > > mm/cma.c | 2 ++ > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c > > index > > 94b5da468a7d719e5144d33b06bcc7619c0fbcc9..be142b473f3bd41b9c7d8ba4397f018f6993d962 > > 100644 > > --- a/mm/cma.c > > +++ b/mm/cma.c > > @@ -949,10 +949,11 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long > > count, > > if (page) > > set_pages_refcounted(page, count); > > > > return page; > > } > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cma_alloc); > > > > static struct cma_memrange *find_cma_memrange(struct cma *cma, > > const struct page *pages, unsigned long count) > > { > > struct cma_memrange *cmr = NULL; > > @@ -1025,10 +1026,11 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page > > *pages, > > > > __cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr, pages, count); > > > > return true; > > } > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cma_release); > > > > bool cma_release_frozen(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages, > > unsigned long count) > > { > > struct cma_memrange *cmr; > > > > I'm wondering whether we want to restrict all these exports to the > dma-buf module only using EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().
TIL about EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES, thanks. > Especially dma_contiguous_default_area() (patch #4), I am not sure > whether we want arbitrary modules to mess with that. Yeah, I wasn't too fond about that one either. Alternatively, I guess we could turn dev_get_cma_area into a non-inlined function and export that instead? Or we could do both. Maxime
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