Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove duplicate definitions of MADV_FREE

From	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove duplicate definitions of MADV_FREE
Date	2016-01-18 09:30 +0100
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On 18.01.2016 04:29, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Commits 21f55b018ba5 ("arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE
> have same value for all architectures") and ef58978f1eaa ("mm: define
> MADV_FREE for some arches") both defined MADV_FREE, but did not use the
> same values. This results in build errors such as
> 
> ./arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h:53:0: error: "MADV_FREE" redefined
> ./arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h:50:0: note:
> 	this is the location of the previous definition
> 
> for the affected architectures.
> 
> Fixes: 21f55b018ba5 ("arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures")
> Fixes: ef58978f1eaa ("mm: define MADV_FREE for some arches")
> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>


On parisc both definitions of MADV_FREE are 8, so I do not face the compiler error.
Nevertheless it should be cleaned up.

Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>  (for parisc)

Thanks!
Helge

> ---
>  arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h  | 1 -
>  arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h   | 1 -
>  arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 -
>  arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 -
>  4 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
> index cf830d465f75..f3db7d8eb0c2 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
> +++ b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
>  #define MADV_SPACEAVAIL 5               /* insure that resources are reserved */
>  #define MADV_VPS_PURGE  6               /* Purge pages from VM page cache */
>  #define MADV_VPS_INHERIT 7              /* Inherit parents page size */
> -#define MADV_FREE	8		/* free pages only if memory pressure */
>  
>  /* common/generic parameters */
>  #define MADV_FREE	8		/* free pages only if memory pressure */

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[PATCH] mm: Remove duplicate definitions of MADV_FREE Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-01-18 04:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove duplicate definitions of MADV_FREE Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2016-01-18 09:30 +0100

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