linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm: add kernel/fork.c function definitions

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Message-ID: <12dd599c-e7e8-2cdb-4363-fdf18c023bef@codethink.co.uk>
Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:44:25 +0100
From:   Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...ts.codethink.co.uk,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: add kernel/fork.c function definitions

On 09/10/2019 16:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 03:06:37PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
>> Add the definitions of arch_release_task_struct,
>> arch_task_cache_init and arch_dup_task_struct which
>> are used in kernel/fork.c but defined in various
>> architecture's <asm/thread_info.h>.
> 
> So please lift them into a common header.  In fact I'm pretty sure
> I had that comment before when people did the same blind sparse
> cleanups for riscv..

Does anyone have a preference to where these should go?

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