Re: [Patch 1/9] fs/exec.c: export free_arg_pages

Al Viro
2008-05-10T19:13:04Z

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:52:26PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> free_arg_pages() is used to clean the pages allocated by copy_strings_kenrel().
> Since copy_strings_kernel() is exported, so should be free_arg_pages().

Not really. free_arg_pages() cleans them all at once; copy_strings_kernel()
adds to pile. free_arg_pages() is called once for _all_ of them. And that
happens in fs/exec.c, so it doesn't need to be exported.