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* [PATCH] mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
@ 2012-04-12 20:44 H Hartley Sweeten
  2012-04-14  9:42 ` Fengguang Wu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: H Hartley Sweeten @ 2012-04-12 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel; +Cc: linux-mm

The function global_dirtyable_memory is only referenced in this file and
should be marked static to prevent it from being exposed globally.

This quiets the sparse warning:

warning: symbol 'global_dirtyable_memory' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>

---

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 26adea8..9dec97f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
  * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
  * page cache.  This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
  */
-unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
+static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
 {
 	unsigned long x;
 

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* Re: [PATCH] mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
  2012-04-12 20:44 [PATCH] mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally H Hartley Sweeten
@ 2012-04-14  9:42 ` Fengguang Wu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Fengguang Wu @ 2012-04-14  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: H Hartley Sweeten; +Cc: Linux Kernel, linux-mm

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:44:20PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> The function global_dirtyable_memory is only referenced in this file and
> should be marked static to prevent it from being exposed globally.
> 
> This quiets the sparse warning:
> 
> warning: symbol 'global_dirtyable_memory' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>

Applied, thanks!

Fengguang

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