2.6.15-mm2: why is __get_page_state() global again?

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Jan 07 2006 - 11:20:19 EST


On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:22:21AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.15-mm1:
>...
> +revert-mm-page_state-fixes.patch
>
> This was a deoptimisation
>...

>From reading the patch description I don't understand why this makes
__get_page_state() global again.

Is there a reason or is this accidentally?

cu
Adrian

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