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| author | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-09-17 12:01:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-09-19 14:26:14 +0200 |
| commit | 7914f15c5e45ea6c76f2b3272ff39d8fe67b13f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 32385a82110d012928536d7787b024add8818f63 /Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | |
| parent | 885fc8ac0a4dc70f5d87b80b0977292870e35c60 (diff) | |
| parent | 38f4885088fc5ad41b8b0a2a2cfc73d01e709e5c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'no-rebase-mnt_ns_tree_remove'
Bring in the fix for removing a mount namespace from the mount namespace
rbtree and list.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst index 32fc73dc5529..034898e81ba2 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst @@ -76,20 +76,21 @@ unit as preprocessor statement. The above example would then read:: within the corresponding compilation unit before the #include for <linux/export.h>. Typically it's placed before the first #include statement. -Using the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro ------------------------------------------------ +Using the EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() macro +------------------------------------------- Symbols exported using this macro are put into a module namespace. This -namespace cannot be imported. +namespace cannot be imported. These exports are GPL-only as they are only +intended for in-tree modules. The macro takes a comma separated list of module names, allowing only those modules to access this symbol. Simple tail-globs are supported. For example:: - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*") + EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*") -will limit usage of this symbol to modules whoes name matches the given +will limit usage of this symbol to modules whose name matches the given patterns. How to use Symbols exported in Namespaces |