linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] kbuild changes for v4.9-rc1

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:12:06 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kbuild changes for v4.9-rc1

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:59:51PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:51:31 +0200
>> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +#include <linux/bitops.h>
> +extern void *__memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
> +extern void *__memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
> +extern void *__memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
> +extern void *memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
> +extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
> +extern void *memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);

Before too late, those extern keywords aren't needed and
only slowdown compilation.