Re: dcache shrink list corruption?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK...  There's one more thing I would like to put there, if you are going to
> be away for the week.  It has sat in -next for a while, and it could stay
> there, except that there's a _lot_ of followups touching stuff all over the
> tree and I'd obviously prefer those to go into subsystem trees.  Which
> means inter-tree dependencies ;-/  Would you be OK if I included that one
> into pull request?  It just turns kvfree() into inline and takes it to
> mm.h, next to is_vmalloc_addr();

Is there any particular reason for inlining this? I'd actually rather
not, _especially_ if it means that a lot of "is_vmalloc_addr()" usage
goes away and we may end up with this as a real interface.

But no, I don't hate the patch.

              Linus
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