Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc: Remove 'extern' from func prototypes in cache headers

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>]

Le 03/09/2019 à 07:23, Alastair D'Silva a écrit :
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> 
> The 'extern' keyword does not value-add for function prototypes.

Is it worth it ? That kind of change is nice cleanup but the drawback is 
to kill automatic backports of fixes.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h      | 8 ++++----
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 +++---
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> index 91c808c6738b..54fffdf5a6ec 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> @@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ static inline u32 l1_icache_bytes(void)
>   #define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32
> -extern long _get_L2CR(void);
> -extern long _get_L3CR(void);
> -extern void _set_L2CR(unsigned long);
> -extern void _set_L3CR(unsigned long);
> +long _get_L2CR(void);
> +long _get_L3CR(void);
> +void _set_L2CR(unsigned long val);
> +void _set_L3CR(unsigned long val);
>   #else
>   #define _get_L2CR()	0L
>   #define _get_L3CR()	0L
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> index 4a1c9f0200e1..fa10dc19206c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> @@ -38,15 +38,15 @@ static inline void flush_cache_vmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { }
>   #endif
>   
>   #define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1
> -extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page);
> +void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page);
>   #define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping)		do { } while (0)
>   #define flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping)	do { } while (0)
>   
>   void flush_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop);
> -extern void flush_icache_user_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +void flush_icache_user_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   				    struct page *page, unsigned long addr,
>   				    int len);

You have to re-align the other parameters to the ( of the first line.

> -extern void flush_dcache_icache_page(struct page *page);
> +void flush_dcache_icache_page(struct page *page);
>   void __flush_dcache_icache(void *page);
>   
>   /**
> 

Christophe