linux-kernel - Re: [V4 1/8] KVM: selftests: move vm_phy_pages

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Message-ID: <Yz8R+/5n63SGP5fc@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Oct 2022 17:35:55 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        marcorr@...gle.com, michael.roth@....com, thomas.lendacky@....com,
        joro@...tes.org, mizhang@...gle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        andrew.jones@...ux.dev
Subject: Re: [V4 1/8] KVM: selftests: move vm_phy_pages_alloc() earlier in
 file

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, Peter Gonda wrote:
> From: Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
> 
> Subsequent patches will break some of this code out into file-local
> helper functions, which will be used by functions like vm_vaddr_alloc(),
> which currently are defined earlier in the file, so a forward
> declaration would be needed.
> 
> Instead, move it earlier in the file, just above vm_vaddr_alloc() and
> and friends, which are the main users.

Meh, the wrappers are one-liners, why not keep this where it is, keep it exposed,
and then make the wrappers "static inline".