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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 17:15:50 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC KVM 01/27] kernel: Export memory-management symbols
 required for KVM address space isolation
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On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> From: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
> 
> Export symbols needed to create, manage, populate and switch
> a mm from a kernel module (kvm in this case).
> 
> This is a hacky way for now to start.
> This should be changed to some suitable memory-management API.

This should not be exported at all, ever, end of story.

Modules do not get to play with address spaces like that.