[PATCH] powerpc: export cpu_smallcore_map for modules

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 9:16 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:40:23PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> writes:
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_device.c calls cpu_smt_mask().
> > > This is an inline function on powerpc which references
> > > cpu_smallcore_map.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 425752c63b6f ("powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm, thread-groups"")
> > > Fixes: 7bc913085765 ("drm/amdkfd: Try to schedule bottom half on same core")
> >
> > That 2nd commit is not in mainline, only linux-next.
> >
> > I don't mind merging this fix preemptively, but is that SHA stable?
>
> I really do not think this has any business being exported at all.
>
> kfd_queue_work is not something that should be done in a driver.
> Something like this belongs into the workqueue core, not in an
> underdocumented helper in a random driver.
>
> Drm guys:  once again, please please work with the maintainers instead
> of just making up random stuff in the drivers.

Discussions are already ongoing with the workqueue folks.  I'll drop
this for now.

Alex