Re: [PATCH v2] mm: cleaning per architecture MM hook header files

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed,  1 Jul 2015 12:17:33 +0200 Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The commit 2ae416b142b6 ("mm: new mm hook framework") introduced an empty
> header file (mm-arch-hooks.h) for every architecture, even those which
> doesn't need to define mm hooks.
> 
> As suggested by Geert Uytterhoeven, this could be cleaned through the use
> of a generic header file included via each per architecture
> asm/include/Kbuild file.
> 
> The PowerPC architecture is not impacted here since this architecture has
> to defined the arch_remap MM hook.

So the way this works is that if an arch wants to override a hook, it
will remove the "generic-y += mm-arch-hooks.h" and add
arch/XXX/include/asm/mm-arch-hooks.h, yes?

And the new arch/XXX/include/asm/mm-arch-hooks.h only needs to define
the hook(s) which the arch wants to override?

So nothing will ever be added to include/asm-generic/mm-arch-hooks.h?

Seems fair enough.

Oleg is angling to remove arch_remap(), so there won't be anything left
in these files!  But there are plenty of ad-hoc things which *should*
be moved over.

> Changes in V2:
> --------------
>  - Vineet Gupta reported that the Kbuild files should be kept sorted.

Yes, we do this to avoid patch collisions.  Everyone always adds stuff
to the end of the list (Makefiles, #includes, etc etc), thus carefully
maximizing the number of patch collisions :(

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