linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 6/7] Use an external declaration in exit.c for fs

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Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:32:53 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [RFC 6/7] Use an external declaration in exit.c for fs_cachep

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:44:13 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
>
> Use an external declaration in exit.c for fs_cachep.
>
> fs_cachep is only used in kernel/exit.c and in kernel/fork.c.
> It is defined in kernel/fork.c so we need to add an external
> declaration to kernel/exit.c to be able to avoid the
> declaration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
>
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2.orig/kernel/exit.c	2006-11-15 16:48:11.485511089 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/kernel/exit.c	2006-11-17 23:04:09.764530373 -0600
> @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>  #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
>
> +extern kmem_cache_t *fs_cachep;

You know what I am going to say, right? :-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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