Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:33:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] virtual memmap on sparsemem v3 [3/4] static virtual mem_map |
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:49:50 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:30:20 -0800 > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_STATIC > > > +#include <linux/mm_types.h> > > > +extern struct page mem_map[]; > > > +#else > > > extern struct page* mem_map; > > > #endif > > > +#endif > > > > This looks rather unpleasant - what went wrong here? > > > definition of 'struct page' is necessary before declearing array[]. (for gcc-4.0)
hm, OK, that declaration needs all of `struct page' in scope.
> > > Would prefer to unconditionally include the header file - conditional inclusions > > like this can cause compile failures when someone changes a config option. They > > generally raise the complexity level. > > > Okay. > Now, forward declearation of 'struct page' is in mmzone.h. > I'll remove it and include mm_types.h instead of it. > If someone says "Don't do that", I'll look for anothere way. >
This header needs mm_types.h, so including it is certainly OK - there's no choice. But I think it'd be better to include mm_types.h outside of any ifdefs. Just stick the #include at the start of the file as usual. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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