The patch titled Subject: fs/eventfd.c: make eventfd_ida static has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is eventfd-make-eventfd_ida-static.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/eventfd-make-eventfd_ida-static.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/eventfd-make-eventfd_ida-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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/eventfd.c: make eventfd_ida static Fix sparse warning: fs/eventfd.c:26:1: warning: symbol 'eventfd_ida' was not declared. Should it be static? Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190413142348.34716-1-yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventfd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/eventfd.c~eventfd-make-eventfd_ida-static +++ a/fs/eventfd.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ #include <linux/seq_file.h> #include <linux/idr.h> -DEFINE_IDA(eventfd_ida); +static DEFINE_IDA(eventfd_ida); struct eventfd_ctx { struct kref kref; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx are lib-kconfigdebug-fix-build-error-without-config_block.patch fs-proc-proc_sysctlc-fix-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch eventfd-make-eventfd_ida-static.patch