Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: remove rte_vhost_va_from_guest_pa from map file

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:16 AM Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 05:58:08AM -0700, Jim Harris wrote:
> > This function is declared __rte_always_inline so it
> > seems unnecessary to include it in the map file.  In
> > addition, it was included in the EXPERIMENTAL section
> > even though the function itself is not marked
> > __rte_experimental.
> >
> > Found by check-experimental-syms.sh when trying to compile
> > DPDK with -finstrument-functions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |    1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map b/lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map
> > index 5f1d4a75c..4908b9b21 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map
> > +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map
> > @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> >       rte_vhost_crypto_fetch_requests;
> >       rte_vhost_crypto_finalize_requests;
> >       rte_vhost_crypto_set_zero_copy;
> > -     rte_vhost_va_from_guest_pa;
> >       rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl;
> >       rte_vdpa_relay_vring_used;
> >       rte_vhost_extern_callback_register;
> >
>
> It might be better to mark this function with __rte_experimental
> to fix the build with -finstrument-functions, as in this way we can
> also get warned when using it with ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API undefined.
> And we can have another patch to promote it to stable.

+1.


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David Marchand