Re: [PATCH 07/13] powerpc: export symbols for page size selection

Arnd Bergmann writes:

> We need access to some symbols in powerpc memory management
> from spufs in order to create proper SLB entries.

I don't like exporting low-level implementation details like this, and
it seems a bit bogus to have an SLB miss handler in a module.  Could
you move the SLB miss handler to the non-modular part?

Regards,
Paul.
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