On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:36:49 -0700 Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > +static const char * const resident_page_types[NR_MM_COUNTERS] = { > > > + "MM_FILEPAGES", > > > + "MM_ANONPAGES", > > > + "MM_SWAPENTS", > > > + "MM_SHMEMPAGES", > > > +}; > > > > But please let's not put this in a header file. We're asking the > > compiler to put a copy of all of this into every compilation unit which > > includes the header. Presumably the compiler is smart enough not to > > do that, but it's not good practice. > > Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense to me. > > Just wanted to check before sending V2, > Is it OK if I add this to kernel/fork.c? or do you have something else in > mind? I was thinking somewhere like mm/util.c so the array could be used by other code. But it seems there is no such code. Perhaps it's best to just leave fork.c as it is now.