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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:56:05 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] fs/dcache: Add sysctl parameter neg-dentry-limit
 as a soft limit on negative dentries
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To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:46:02PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> +int neg_dentry_limit;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(neg_dentry_limit);

Why are you exporting it?  What module needs this?