Re: some questions about __get_vm_area_node

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, vichy wrote:

> Yes, I saw your check in message on Mon Dec 19 17:12:04 2011 -0800.
> BTW, why we declare it as static previously?

Most likely copy-and-paste error by the original author.

> for saving stack usage?

For that you would need some kind of synchronization to protect it from 
concurrent access which doesn't exist in this context, so it was simply a 
mistake that got past review.
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