On 29/10/2018 13:58, Marc Dionne wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 2:37 PM Linux Kernel Mailing List > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote: >> >> Commit: 5c83511bdb9832c86be20fb86b783356e2f58062 >> Parent: 27876f3882fdd4acb3d3614a0133ecdc777fc292 >> Refname: refs/heads/master >> Web: >> https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/5c83511bdb9832c86be20fb86b783356e2f58062 >> Author: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> >> AuthorDate: Tue Aug 28 09:40:19 2018 +0200 >> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> >> CommitDate: Mon Sep 3 16:50:35 2018 +0200 >> >> x86/paravirt: Use a single ops structure >> >> Instead of using six globally visible paravirt ops structures combine >> them in a single structure, keeping the original structures as >> sub-structures. >> >> This avoids the need to assemble struct paravirt_patch_template at >> runtime on the stack each time apply_paravirt() is being called (i.e. >> when loading a module). > > The above commit replaces pv_lock_ops, which was EXPORT_SYMBOL, with > something that is part of pv_ops, which is EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. When > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS is set, this has the side effect of making > spin_lock() unusable by out of tree modules, which will likely be an > issue for many, if not most of them.
Thanks for noticing! Sending a patch soon... Juergen
