The patch titled Subject: shmem: include header file to declare swap_info has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is shmem-include-header-file-to-declare-swap_info.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/shmem-include-header-file-to-declare-swap_info.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/shmem-include-header-file-to-declare-swap_info.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: shmem: include header file to declare swap_info It's bad to extern swap_info[] in .c. Include corresponding header file instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210812120350.49801-5-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c~shmem-include-header-file-to-declare-swap_info +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ #include <linux/hugetlb.h> #include <linux/frontswap.h> #include <linux/fs_parser.h> +#include <linux/swapfile.h> static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt; @@ -1152,8 +1153,6 @@ static void shmem_evict_inode(struct ino clear_inode(inode); } -extern struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[]; - static int shmem_find_swap_entries(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start, unsigned int nr_entries, struct page **entries, pgoff_t *indices, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-gup-remove-set-but-unused-local-variable-major.patch mm-gup-remove-unneed-local-variable-orig_refs.patch mm-gup-remove-useless-bug_on-in-__get_user_pages.patch mm-gup-fix-potential-pgmap-refcnt-leak-in-__gup_device_huge.patch mm-gup-use-helper-page_aligned-in-populate_vma_page_range.patch shmem-remove-unneeded-variable-ret.patch shmem-remove-unneeded-header-file.patch shmem-remove-unneeded-function-forward-declaration.patch shmem-include-header-file-to-declare-swap_info.patch mm-memcg-remove-unused-functions.patch mm-memcg-save-some-atomic-ops-when-flush-is-already-true.patch mm-vmscan-remove-the-pagedirty-check-after-madv_free-pages-are-page_ref_freezed.patch mm-vmscan-remove-misleading-setting-to-sc-priority.patch mm-vmscan-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-kswapd_run.patch mm-vmscan-add-else-to-remove-check_pending-label.patch mm-vmstat-correct-some-wrong-comments.patch mm-vmstat-simplify-the-array-size-calculation.patch mm-vmstat-remove-unneeded-return-value.patch mm-zsmallocc-close-race-window-between-zs_pool_dec_isolated-and-zs_unregister_migration.patch mm-zsmallocc-combine-two-atomic-ops-in-zs_pool_dec_isolated.patch