Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Fix warning: no previous prototype

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Dec 18 2020 - 12:58:39 EST


On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 09:39:30 +0530 Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:53 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:03:11AM +0800, Xiangyang Yu wrote:
> > > Fixed the warning when building with warnings enabled (W=1),
> > > This function is only used in filemap.c, so mark this function
> > > with 'static'.
> >
> > Good grief, no. Look at the git history before proposing a patch.
>
> revert "mm/filemap: add static for function __add_to_page_cache_locked"
> Revert commit 3351b16af494 ("mm/filemap: add static for function
> __add_to_page_cache_locked") due to incompatibility with
> ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION which result in build errors.
>

How about we add a prototype for __add_to_page_cache_locked() to squash
the warning, along with a comment explaining what's going on?