Re: [PATCH] make security_ops EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:34:23PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > If people want to remove security_ops, that's fine (not for 2.6.17, but 
> > > assuming you guys can come to some reasonable agreement, at some later 
> > > date). But turning it into a GPL-only, but leaving all the infrastructure 
> > > requiring it is not.
> > 
> > Fair enough, I'll work toward removing security_ops so that it is no
> > longer needed at all.
> 
> Ok, that was pretty foolish of me to attempt.  We could move all of the
> inline functions in security.h to a .c file for when the LSM framework
> is enabled, but that might cause some slowdowns.  Although I remember
> that Kurt Garloff did some work in this area in the past, showing that
> moving these out of inline caused some improvements on ia64.

No, those patches didn't deinline anything.  Rather eliminated the
indirect call via sercurity_ops when possible.  I was actually in the
process of ressurecting those when this whole thread broke out.

> Anyway, for now I'm not going to worry about this, it isn't that
> important...

Agreed ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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