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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] tasks.h
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On Saturday 12 October 2002 08:59, Tim Schmielau wrote:

> More work will be neccessary to completely disentangle both files, so that
> sched.h doesn't need to include tasks.h. Biggest obstacle is get_task_mm()
> which needs both task_struct and mm_struct. Maybe I'll break out something
> like a <linux/task_mm.h> later.

AFAICS, get_task_mm() is never used in a fast path, only in
ptrace and procfs code where a few cpu cycles don't hurt anyone.
Any reason why you can't just make it an extern function?

	Arnd <><
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