The patch titled Subject: mm/gup.c: make unnecessarily global vma_permits_fault() static has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-gup-make-unnecessarily-global-vma_permits_fault-static.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-gup-make-unnecessarily-global-vma_permits_fault-static.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-gup-make-unnecessarily-global-vma_permits_fault-static.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/gup.c: make unnecessarily global vma_permits_fault() static Make vma_permits_fault() static as it is only used in mm/gup.c This fixes a sparse warning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161017122353.31598-1-tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/gup.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/gup.c~mm-gup-make-unnecessarily-global-vma_permits_fault-static mm/gup.c --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-make-unnecessarily-global-vma_permits_fault-static +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -623,7 +623,8 @@ next_page: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_pages); -bool vma_permits_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned int fault_flags) +static bool vma_permits_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned int fault_flags) { bool write = !!(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE); bool foreign = !!(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-gup-make-unnecessarily-global-vma_permits_fault-static.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html