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Message-Id: <20070618151544.B10A.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:33:21 +0900
From:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: More __meminit annotations.

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:49:24PM +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > > -static inline unsigned long zone_absent_pages_in_node(int nid,
> > > +static inline unsigned long __meminit zone_absent_pages_in_node(int nid,
> > >  						unsigned long zone_type,
> > >  						unsigned long *zholes_size)
> > >  {
> > 
> > I thought __meminit is not effective for these static functions,
> > because they are inlined function. So, it depends on caller's 
> > defenition. Is it wrong? 
> > 
> Ah, that's possible, I hadn't considered that. It seems to be a bit more
> obvious what the intention is if it's annotated, especially as this is
> the convention that's used by the rest of mm/page_alloc.c. A bit more
> consistent, if nothing more.

I'm not sure which is intended. I found some functions define both
__init and inline in kernel tree. And probably, some functions don't
do it. So, it seems there is no convention.

I'm Okay if you prefer both defined. :-)


-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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