linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap

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Message-Id: <1209426754.23166.160.camel@edge.scott.net.au>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:52:33 +1000
From:	Nathan Scott <nscott@...nex.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc()

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:32 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > and
> > its a side-effect of needing to do that (all the code
> > dealing with specifics of ondisk format is shared).
> 
> But does that really need "STATIC"? Seems doubtful to me.

In userspace STATIC is defined to nothing, and the tools
(and/or libxfs) directly call into numerous functions that
are (really) static in the kernel.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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