[PATCH 6/6] Account for memmap and optionally the kernel image as holes

Mel Gorman mel at skynet.ie
Tue Jul 11 01:31:30 EST 2006


On (10/07/06 12:30), David Howells didst pronounce:
> Mel Gorman <mel at csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> 
> > +unsigned long __initdata dma_reserve;
> 
> Should this be static?  Or should it be predeclared in a header file
> somewhere?
> 

It should be static as it's set by set_dma_reserve(). Thanks.

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.17-mm6-106-account_kernel_mmap/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.17-mm6-107-fixstatic/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.17-mm6-106-account_kernel_mmap/mm/page_alloc.c	2006-07-10 15:55:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm6-107-fixstatic/mm/page_alloc.c	2006-07-10 16:03:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
 
 unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
 unsigned long __meminitdata nr_all_pages;
-unsigned long __initdata dma_reserve;
+static unsigned long __initdata dma_reserve;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
   /*



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