Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] hugetlb: Replace BUG() with BUILD_BUG() for dummy definitions.

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On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, David Daney wrote:

> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The file linux/hugetlb.h has many places where dummy symbols were
> defined so that the main source code would contain fewer:
> 
>     #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> 
> or
> 
>     #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> 
> If there were any misuse of these symbols, the only symptom would be
> an OOPS at runtime.  Change the BUG() to BUILD_BUG() to catch
> any such abuse at compile time instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static inline void set_file_hugepages(struct file *file)
>  #else /* !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
>  
>  #define is_file_hugepages(file)			0
> -#define set_file_hugepages(file)		BUG()
> +#define set_file_hugepages(file)		BUILD_BUG()
>  static inline struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
>  		vm_flags_t acctflag, struct user_struct **user, int creat_flags)
>  {

Looks like this symbol can just be removed entirely, it's not referenced 
anywhere.
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