Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove duplicate definitions of MADV_FREE

From: Helge Deller
Date: Mon Jan 18 2016 - 03:24:47 EST


On 18.01.2016 04:29, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Commits 21f55b018ba5 ("arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE
> have same value for all architectures") and ef58978f1eaa ("mm: define
> MADV_FREE for some arches") both defined MADV_FREE, but did not use the
> same values. This results in build errors such as
>
> ./arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h:53:0: error: "MADV_FREE" redefined
> ./arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h:50:0: note:
> this is the location of the previous definition
>
> for the affected architectures.
>
> Fixes: 21f55b018ba5 ("arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures")
> Fixes: ef58978f1eaa ("mm: define MADV_FREE for some arches")
> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


On parisc both definitions of MADV_FREE are 8, so I do not face the compiler error.
Nevertheless it should be cleaned up.

Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> (for parisc)

Thanks!
Helge

> ---
> arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 -
> arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 -
> arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 -
> arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 -
> 4 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
> index cf830d465f75..f3db7d8eb0c2 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
> +++ b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
> #define MADV_SPACEAVAIL 5 /* insure that resources are reserved */
> #define MADV_VPS_PURGE 6 /* Purge pages from VM page cache */
> #define MADV_VPS_INHERIT 7 /* Inherit parents page size */
> -#define MADV_FREE 8 /* free pages only if memory pressure */
>
> /* common/generic parameters */
> #define MADV_FREE 8 /* free pages only if memory pressure */

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