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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include linux/pagemap.h in asm-generic/tlb.h
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:34:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824203424.8b47ff73.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070825021533.GA12544@c2.user-mode-linux.org>

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:15:33 -0400 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:

> > So I think a better fix would be better, but I'm not able to suggest what,
> > as there is little detail about the failure here and I can find no mention
> > of page_cache_release and release_pages in asm-generic/tlb.h.  Presumably
> > they're getting pulled in via some macro and then instantiated in some
> > inline function or something?
> 
> Yes, it's straightforward - 
> 
> tlb.h:
> 
> static inline void
> tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> {
> 	...
> 		free_pages_and_swap_cache(tlb->pages, tlb->nr);
> 	...
> }
> 
> swap.h:
> #define free_pages_and_swap_cache(pages, nr) \
> 	release_pages((pages), (nr), 0);

Oh that damn thing again.  It's a regular source of include breakage.

I suppose we could just uninline tlb_flush_mmu().

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-25  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 18:46 [PATCH] include linux/pagemap.h in asm-generic/tlb.h Jeff Dike
2007-08-24 20:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-08-24 22:46   ` Jeff Dike
2007-08-26  6:48     ` Rob Landley
2007-08-25  0:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-25  2:15   ` Jeff Dike
2007-08-25  3:34     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-26  5:44   ` Rob Landley

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