Re: [PATCH v9 2/6] mm: page_alloc: remain memblock_next_valid_pfn() on arm/arm64

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 14:13:52 EST


> +++ b/include/linux/early_pfn.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/* Copyright (C) 2018 HXT-semitech Corp. */
> +#ifndef __EARLY_PFN_H
> +#define __EARLY_PFN_H
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PFN_VALID
> +ulong __init_memblock memblock_next_valid_pfn(ulong pfn)
> +{
> + struct memblock_type *type = &memblock.memory;

Why put it in a header file and not in some C file? In my opinion it
is confusing to have non-line functions in header files. Basically,
you can include this header file in exactly one C file without
breaking compilation.