Subject: Re: [Resend RFC PATCH V2 07/12] HV/Vmbus: Initialize VMbus ring buffer for Isolation VM

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:36:30 +0200

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 04:24:15PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> So you are exposing these two:
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_vm_area);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ioremap_page_range);
> 
> But if you used vmap wouldn't you get the same thing for free?

Yes, this needs to go into some vmap version, preferably reusing the
existing code in kernel/dma/remap.c.

Exporting get_vm_area is a complete dealbreaker and not going to happen.
We worked hard on not exposing it to modules.