[PATCH] arm64/mm: Drop redundant extern declaration for rodata_full
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Tue Nov 4 07:43:04 PST 2025
On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 03:36:09AM +0100, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Drop the redundant extern declaration 'rodata_full' which can be included
> via the header <asm/setup.h> after moving exiting declaration outside the
> function arch_parse_debug_rodata(). While here also drop 'rodata_enabled'
> which is anyways available via the generic header <linux/init.h>.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 2 --
> arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h | 4 +---
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> index 0375ca3162ff..e4b3563e1d96 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> @@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
> #include <asm/sysreg.h>
> #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>
> -extern bool rodata_full;
> -
> static inline void contextidr_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
> {
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR))
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> index 3d96dde4d214..902f1aab520f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> @@ -12,12 +12,10 @@
> */
> extern phys_addr_t __fdt_pointer __initdata;
> extern u64 __cacheline_aligned boot_args[4];
> +extern bool rodata_full;
>
> static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> {
> - extern bool rodata_enabled;
> - extern bool rodata_full;
> -
> if (!arg)
> return false;
It would probably be cleaner to make 'rodata_full' static in mm/pageattr.c,
move the guts of arch_parse_debug_rodata in there and then consolidate
can_set_direct_map() and force_pte_mapping().
You need to talk to Ryan for the last part, as David's made some
suggestions around that too.
Will
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