David Mosberger wrote:
>
> In the 2.5.3x kernel, what's the point of defining pte_chain_lock()
> and pte_chain_unlock() in page-flags.h? These two routines make it
> impossible to include page-flags.h on it's own, because they require
> "struct page" to be defined (and a forward declaration isn't
> sufficient either). This can introduce rather annoying circular
> include-file dependencies.
It's a wart. The now-abandoned hashed spinlocking patch moves
them into <linux/rmap-locking.h>. We can do that anyway - only
two files need it.
Or maybe just put them in asm-generic/rmap.h. I'll fix it up.
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