linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] linux/swap.h must #include <linux/pagemap.h>

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Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:15:47 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>,
	Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp>,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] linux/swap.h must #include <linux/pagemap.h>

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:13:43 +0100 (BST) Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> 
> > > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function 'tlb_flush_mmu':
> > > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h:76: error: implicit declaration of function 'release_pages'
> > > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function 'tlb_remove_page':
> > > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h:105: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_cache_release'
> 
> tlb_finish_mmu() inlines tlb_flush_mmu() and ends up being quite large.
> 
> tlb_finish_mmu() has five callsites in core kernel.
> 
> The above error is God's way of telling us that it's all too large to
> be inlined.
> 
> uninlining these things would be a bit of a pita because of the various
> arch overrides.  But it really is the right thing to do.

Yes, that's a good point too.  They could be put in arch/*/mm/somewhere.c.

But I'd rather put that off even further into the future, because there's
quite a bit of rationalization to be done (more arch differences than
necessary), and Ben's the one currently holding our reorganize-mmu_gather
ball.  (I keep pointing to you, Ben, please don't think I'm accusing at
all: I'm the guilty one who held it and did nothing with it before.)

I'm still in favour the quick fs/exec.c build fixup for now.

Hugh
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