linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/swap: cleanup *lru_cache

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Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:09:43 +0800
From:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, <shli@...nel.org>,
	<bob.liu@...cle.com>, <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	<iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, <aquini@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	<khalid.aziz@...cle.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/swap: cleanup *lru_cache_add* functions

On 04/21/2014 12:02 PM, Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> Hi,  Yanfei,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Zhang Yanfei
> <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> What should be exported?
>>
>> lru_cache_add()
>> lru_cache_add_anon()
>> lru_cache_add_file()
>>
>> It seems you only export lru_cache_add_file() in the patch.
> 
> Right, lru_cache_add_anon() is only used by VM code, so it should not
> be exported.
> 
> lru_cache_add_file() and lru_cache_add() are supposed to be used by
> vfs ans fs code.
> 
> But  now only lru_cache_add_file() is  used by CIFS and FUSE, which
> both could be
> built as module, so it must be exported;  and lru_cache_add() has now
> no module users,
> so as Rik suggests, it is unexported too.
> 

OK. So The sentence in the patch log confused me:

[ However, lru_cache_add() is supposed to
be used by vfs, or whatever others, but it is not exported.]

otherwise, 
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>

Thanks.

-- 
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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