With Commit c9f3401313a5 ("powerpc: Always enable queued spinlocks for
64s, disable for others") CONFIG_PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS is always
enabled on ppc64le, external modules that use spinlock APIs are
failing.
ERROR: modpost: GPL-incompatible module XXX.ko uses GPL-only symbol
'shared_processor'
Before the above commit, modules were able to build without any
issues. Also this problem is not seen on other architectures. This
problem can be workaround if CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK is enabled in
the config. However CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK is not enabled by
default and only enabled in certain conditions like
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCKS is set in the kernel config.
#include <linux/module.h>
spinlock_t spLock;
static int __init spinlock_test_init(void)
{
spin_lock_init(&spLock);
spin_lock(&spLock);
spin_unlock(&spLock);
return 0;
}
static void __exit spinlock_test_exit(void)
{
printk("spinlock_test unloaded\n");
}
module_init(spinlock_test_init);
module_exit(spinlock_test_exit);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION ("spinlock_test");
MODULE_LICENSE ("non-GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR ("Srikar Dronamraju");
Given that spin locks are one of the basic facilities for module code,
this effectively makes it impossible to build/load almost any non GPL
modules on ppc64le.
This was first reported at https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11172
Currently shared_processor is exported as GPL only symbol.
Fix this for parity with other architectures by exposing
shared_processor to non-GPL modules too.
Fixes: 14c73bd344da ("powerpc/vcpu: Assume dedicated processors as non-preempt")
Fixes: c9f3401313a5 ("powerpc: Always enable queued spinlocks for 64s, disable
for others")
Reported-by: marc.c.dio...@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Cc: marc.c.dio...@gmail.com
Cc: jfor...@redhat.com
Cc: yaday...@in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index 754e493b7c05..0338f481c12b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
#include "../../../../drivers/pci/pci.h"
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(shared_processor);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shared_processor);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shared_processor);
int CMO_PrPSP = -1;
int CMO_SecPSP = -1;
base-commit: adf3c31e18b765ea24eba7b0c1efc076b8ee3d55
--
2.18.2
