linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier: rename mmu_notifier_synchronize() to <...>

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Message-ID: <1541511290.7839.9.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 06 Nov 2018 05:34:50 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier: rename mmu_notifier_synchronize() to
 <...>_barrier()

On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 13:14 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:18:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > +++ b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
> > But as it has no callers, why retain it?
> ... and this patch missed the declaration of mmu_notifier_synchronize
> in include/linux/mmu_notifier.h (whether we delete it or rename it,
> that mention of it needs to be fixed)

Doh.  I'll remove the function and send v2.