Bug 218253

Summary:	linux 2.6.25 does not export flush_tlb_page and friends on amd64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luca Barbato <lu_zero>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	218196

Description Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2008-04-18 11:40:32 UTC

other arches do

grep -r flush_tlb_page /usr/src/linux  | grep EXPORT
/usr/src/linux/arch/mips/kernel/smp.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);
/usr/src/linux/arch/m32r/kernel/m32r_ksyms.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_flush_tlb_page);
/usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);
/usr/src/linux/arch/x86/kernel/smp_32.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);
/usr/src/linux/arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);
/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);
/usr/src/linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-04-19 08:31:24 UTC

As discussed on IRC the change was intentional and those other exports will be removed over time. I'm sorry that this stuff makes your life hard with ATI.