[PATCH 2/2] filemap: Add __filemap_get_folio_mpol()

[Shivank Garg]

On 6/23/2025 3:46 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:32:05 +0530 Shivank Garg <shivankg at amd.com> wrote:
> 
>>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__filemap_get_folio);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__filemap_get_folio_mpol);
>>>  
>>>  static inline struct folio *find_get_entry(struct xa_state *xas, pgoff_t max,
>>>  		xa_mark_t mark)
>>> _
>>>
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Thank you for addressing this.
>>
>> If you don’t mind me asking,
>> I was curious why we used EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL here.
>> I had previously received feedback recommending the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>> to better align with the kernel’s licensing philosophy, which made sense to me.
> 
> Making this _GPL would effectively switch __filemap_get_folio() from
> non-GPL to GPL.  Leaving it at non-GPL is less disruptive and Matthew's
> patch did not have the intention of changing licensing.
> 
> Also,
> 
> hp2:/usr/src/25> grep "EXPORT_SYMBOL(" mm/filemap.c|wc -l
> 48
> hp2:/usr/src/25> grep "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(" mm/filemap.c|wc -l 
> 9
> 
> 

Can you pick these revised patches:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250623093939.1323623-4-shivankg@amd.com

I did some touch-up on commit description, changed some code alignments to make it more readable
and fixed couple of checkpatch.pl warnings.

Thanks,
Shivank