Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 22:34:42 EST


On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:54:57PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Difference between #v7 and #v8:

This one on top of the previous patch

[patch] mmu-v8: typesafe

Move definition of struct mmu_notifier and struct mmu_notifier_ops under
CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER to ensure they doesn't get dereferenced when they
don't make sense.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
---
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@

#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>

struct mmu_notifier;
+struct mmu_notifier_ops;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER

struct mmu_notifier_ops {
/*
@@ -53,10 +57,6 @@ struct mmu_notifier {
const struct mmu_notifier_ops *ops;
};

-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER
-
-#include <linux/mm_types.h>
-
static inline int mm_has_notifiers(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
return unlikely(!hlist_empty(&mm->mmu_notifier_list));
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