Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc()

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Mon Apr 28 2008 - 19:52:50 EST


On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:32 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > and
> > its a side-effect of needing to do that (all the code
> > dealing with specifics of ondisk format is shared).
>
> But does that really need "STATIC"? Seems doubtful to me.

In userspace STATIC is defined to nothing, and the tools
(and/or libxfs) directly call into numerous functions that
are (really) static in the kernel.

cheers.

--
Nathan

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