Where is PageHead defined in v5.0?

Tobin C. Harding me at tobin.cc
Thu Mar 28 16:56:09 EDT 2019


On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 01:50:47AM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:23:05 -0700, Igor Pylypiv said:
> > and TESTPAGEFLAG defines PageHead:
> >         #define TESTPAGEFLAG(uname, lname, policy) \
> >         static __always_inline int Page##uname(struct page *page)
> >         (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0.5/source/include/linux/page-flags.h#L215)
> 
> General tip:  If you're trying to find where the kernel defines FooBar,
> and 'git grep FooBar' only finds uses and no definitions, it probably
> means somebody got over-exuberant with the ## pre-processor
> operator
> 
> 'git grep Foo##' usually reveals the culprit. ;)

Awesome tip, thanks Valdis.



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