Re: [PATCH 4/4] Revert "mm/page_alloc: make should_fail_alloc_page() static"

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This reverts commit f7173090033c70886d925995e9dfdfb76dbb2441.
> 
> Fix an unresolved symbol error when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y:

I still fundamentally disagreed with this "fix".  Whatever code requires
a function to be non-static without a prototype and reference is
completely fucked up beyond rescue and needs to be disabled util
it can be fixed instead of worked around like this.