The patch titled Subject: mm: mark swap_lock and swap_active_head static has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-static.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-static.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-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: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: mm: mark swap_lock and swap_active_head static swap_lock and swap_active_head are only used in swapfile.c, so mark them static. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211224062246.1258487-12-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/swapfile.h | 2 -- mm/swapfile.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/swapfile.h~mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-static +++ a/include/linux/swapfile.h @@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ * these were static in swapfile.c but frontswap.c needs them and we don't * want to expose them to the dozens of source files that include swap.h */ -extern spinlock_t swap_lock; -extern struct plist_head swap_active_head; extern struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[]; extern unsigned long generic_max_swapfile_size(void); extern unsigned long max_swapfile_size(void); --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-static +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static bool swap_count_continued(struct unsigned char); static void free_swap_count_continuations(struct swap_info_struct *); -DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_lock); +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_lock); static unsigned int nr_swapfiles; atomic_long_t nr_swap_pages; /* @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static const char Unused_offset[] = "Unu * all active swap_info_structs * protected with swap_lock, and ordered by priority. */ -PLIST_HEAD(swap_active_head); +static PLIST_HEAD(swap_active_head); /* * all available (active, not full) swap_info_structs _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are mm-remove-cleancache.patch frontswap-remove-frontswap_writethrough.patch frontswap-remove-frontswap_tmem_exclusive_gets.patch frontswap-remove-frontswap_shrink.patch frontswap-remove-frontswap_curr_pages.patch frontswap-simplify-frontswap_init.patch frontswap-remove-the-frontswap-exports.patch mm-simplify-try_to_unuse.patch frontswap-remove-frontswap_test.patch frontswap-simplify-frontswap_register_ops.patch mm-mark-swap_lock-and-swap_active_head-static.patch frontswap-remove-support-for-multiple-ops.patch mm-hide-the-frontswap-kconfig-symbol.patch