Re: [PATCH] mm: More __meminit annotations.

From: Yasunori Goto
Date: Mon Jun 18 2007 - 02:34:19 EST


> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:49:24PM +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > > -static inline unsigned long zone_absent_pages_in_node(int nid,
> > > +static inline unsigned long __meminit zone_absent_pages_in_node(int nid,
> > > unsigned long zone_type,
> > > unsigned long *zholes_size)
> > > {
> >
> > I thought __meminit is not effective for these static functions,
> > because they are inlined function. So, it depends on caller's
> > defenition. Is it wrong?
> >
> Ah, that's possible, I hadn't considered that. It seems to be a bit more
> obvious what the intention is if it's annotated, especially as this is
> the convention that's used by the rest of mm/page_alloc.c. A bit more
> consistent, if nothing more.

I'm not sure which is intended. I found some functions define both
__init and inline in kernel tree. And probably, some functions don't
do it. So, it seems there is no convention.

I'm Okay if you prefer both defined. :-)


--
Yasunori Goto


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