Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:12:28 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: + include-linux-sched-mmh-uninline-mmdrop_async-etc.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Fri 15-09-17 09:07:31, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 14-09-17 13:19:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > Subject: include/linux/sched/mm.h: uninline mmdrop_async(), etc > > > > mmdrop_async() is only used in fork.c. Move that and its support > > functions into fork.c, uninline it all. > > Is this really an improvement? Why do we want to discourage more code > paths to use mmdrop_async? It sounds like a useful api and it has been > removed only because it lost its own user in oom code. Now that we have > a user I would just keep it where it was before.
Dohh, I have mixed mmput_async with mmdrop_async. Anyway I still think that this is universal enough to have it in a header rather than hiding it in fork.c -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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