linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with

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Message-ID: <20160817171546.GD2356@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:15:46 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with_exception in
 asm/uaccess.h

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:14:42AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Most of the other C content in this file is already implemented
> in macro form.  Doing the same for this function will allow us
> to get rid of the duplicated search_exception_tables prototype.
> We will bring it in as required via <linux/extable.h> inclusion.

What is it doing in uaccess.h in the first place?  ia64_done_with_exception()
is used only in the guts of arch/ia64 (2 in kernel, 1 in mm), so why dump it
into a widely-used header?