linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] tools/bootconfig: Define memblock_free

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whsAk7u0arWz37YbCyQPZgKfKOhrM1oKp+0B9uJk6J9OQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:21:09 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] tools/bootconfig: Define memblock_free_ptr() to
 fix build error

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 5:53 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Since commit 77e02cf57b6c ("memblock: introduce saner
> 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface") introduced memblock_free_ptr()
> to lib/bootconfig.c, bootconfig tool also has to define
> memblock_free_ptr() wrapper, and remove unused __pa() and
> memblock_free().

Christ.

I grepped for this, and couldn't find any use of that memblock_free
function in the tools directory, so I ignored it.

It seems like the code in lib/bootconfig.c is compiled both into the
kernel and into that tool. This is a nightmare. We've explicitly tried
to avoid this for the tooling headers exactly because of issues like
this.

           Linus