Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:40:09 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/13] maps#2: Move the page walker code to lib/ |
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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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