linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix declaration of cgroup_mm_owner

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Message-ID: <48D176EA.9040304@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:30:18 -0700
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix declaration of cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:06:38 -0700 (PDT)
> menage@...gle.com (Paul Menage) wrote:
> 
>> Fix declaration of cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks()
>>
>> The choice of real/dummy declaration for cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks()
>> shouldn't be based on CONFIG_MM_OWNER, but on
>> CONFIG_CGROUPS. Otherwise kernel/exit.c fails to compile when
>> something other than a cgroups controller selects CONFIG_MM_OWNER
>>
> 
> Being too lazy to go back and find out what "something" is, I assumed
> that this isn't needed in 2.6.27.

We don't have anything using CONFIG_MM_OWNER in 2.6.27, so we should be OK
pushing this to 2.6.28 (Pekka plans to use it for revoke* calls).

Pekka, Paul do you agree?


-- 
	Balbir
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