Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm,thread-groups"

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:43:21 -0700

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 06:27:43AM -0700, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> * Gautham R. Shenoy <[email-masked]> [2018-08-09 11:02:07]:
> 
> > 
> >  int threads_per_core, threads_per_subcore, threads_shift;
> > +bool has_big_cores;
> >  cpumask_t threads_core_mask;
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_per_core);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_per_subcore);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_shift);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(has_big_cores);
> 
> Why do we need EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?

Because it is deeply internal, and in that matches the other related
exports.