The patch titled Subject: mm/swap_slots.c: delete meaningless forward declarations has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-swap_slotsc-delete-meaningless-forward-declarations.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swap_slotsc-delete-meaningless-forward-declarations.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swap_slotsc-delete-meaningless-forward-declarations.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: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/swap_slots.c: delete meaningless forward declarations deactivate_swap_slots_cache() and reactivate_swap_slots_cache() are only called below their implementations. So these forward declarations are meaningless and should be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210520134022.1370406-4-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swap_slots.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/swap_slots.c~mm-swap_slotsc-delete-meaningless-forward-declarations +++ a/mm/swap_slots.c @@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(swap_slots_cache_mut static DEFINE_MUTEX(swap_slots_cache_enable_mutex); static void __drain_swap_slots_cache(unsigned int type); -static void deactivate_swap_slots_cache(void); -static void reactivate_swap_slots_cache(void); #define use_swap_slot_cache (swap_slot_cache_active && swap_slot_cache_enabled) #define SLOTS_CACHE 0x1 _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-swapfile-use-percpu_ref-to-serialize-against-concurrent-swapoff.patch swap-fix-do_swap_page-race-with-swapoff.patch mm-swap-remove-confusing-checking-for-non_swap_entry-in-swap_ra_info.patch mm-shmem-fix-shmem_swapin-race-with-swapoff.patch mm-swapfile-move-get_swap_page_of_type-under-config_hibernation.patch mm-swap-remove-unused-local-variable-nr_shadows.patch mm-swap_slotsc-delete-meaningless-forward-declarations.patch mm-swap-remove-unused-global-variable-nr_swapper_spaces.patch mm-huge_memoryc-remove-dedicated-macro-hpage_cache_index_mask.patch mm-huge_memoryc-use-page-deferred_list.patch mm-huge_memoryc-add-missing-read-only-thp-checking-in-transparent_hugepage_enabled.patch mm-huge_memoryc-add-missing-read-only-thp-checking-in-transparent_hugepage_enabled-v4.patch mm-huge_memoryc-remove-unnecessary-tlb_remove_page_size-for-huge-zero-pmd.patch mm-huge_memoryc-dont-discard-hugepage-if-other-processes-are-mapping-it.patch