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Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with_exception in asm/uaccess.h

From Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with_exception in asm/uaccess.h
Date 2016-08-17 19:20 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:14:42AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Most of the other C content in this file is already implemented
> in macro form.  Doing the same for this function will allow us
> to get rid of the duplicated search_exception_tables prototype.
> We will bring it in as required via <linux/extable.h> inclusion.

What is it doing in uaccess.h in the first place?  ia64_done_with_exception()
is used only in the guts of arch/ia64 (2 in kernel, 1 in mm), so why dump it
into a widely-used header?

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[PATCH 0/2] ia64: make use of new extable.h header Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-08-16 17:20 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with_exception in asm/uaccess.h Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-08-16 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with_exception in  asm/uaccess.h Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-08-17 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] ia64: macro-ize ia64_done_with_exception in  asm/uaccess.h Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-08-19 05:30 +0200

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