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[06/21] shmem: export shmem_kernel_file_setup

Message ID 20240126132903.2700077-7-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series [01/21] mm: move mapping_set_update out of <linux/swap.h> | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig Jan. 26, 2024, 1:28 p.m. UTC 
XFS wants to use this for it's internal in-memory data structures and
currently duplicates the functionality.  Export shmem_kernel_file_setup
to allow XFS to switch over to using the proper kernel API.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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 mm/shmem.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox Jan. 26, 2024, 3:45 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 02:28:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> XFS wants to use this for it's internal in-memory data structures and
> currently duplicates the functionality.  Export shmem_kernel_file_setup
> to allow XFS to switch over to using the proper kernel API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index dae684cd3c99fb..e89fb5eccb0c0a 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -4856,6 +4856,7 @@  struct file *shmem_kernel_file_setup(const char *name, loff_t size, unsigned lon
 {
 	return __shmem_file_setup(shm_mnt, name, size, flags, S_PRIVATE);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_kernel_file_setup);
 
 /**
  * shmem_file_setup - get an unlinked file living in tmpfs