Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:37:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: page-flags.h pollution? |
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David Mosberger wrote: > > In the 2.5.3x kernel, what's the point of defining pte_chain_lock() > and pte_chain_unlock() in page-flags.h? These two routines make it > impossible to include page-flags.h on it's own, because they require > "struct page" to be defined (and a forward declaration isn't > sufficient either). This can introduce rather annoying circular > include-file dependencies.
It's a wart. The now-abandoned hashed spinlocking patch moves them into <linux/rmap-locking.h>. We can do that anyway - only two files need it.
Or maybe just put them in asm-generic/rmap.h. I'll fix it up. - 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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