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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/13] maps#2: Move the page walker code to lib/
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:35:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >Move the page walker code to lib/
> >
> >This lets it get shared outside of proc/ and linked in only when
> >needed.
>
> Still should go into mm/
>
> If it had, you might have also noticed your pagetable walking code
> is completely different from how everyone else does it, and fixed
> that too.

I actually did notice that, when I compared it to jsgf's page walking
code for Xen.

> BTW. Is it the case that unused and unexported symbols don't get
> pruned by the linker except inside lib/?

Yes, that's been my point all along. It also currently only happens at
the granularity of an object file, not a symbol, FYI.

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