tree 6ad79aca10e807b05daf891b2472642e2e941002
parent 2e79d951ffbd57cd7f2d0aae715b9435ba8e7d8a
author Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> 1527610841 +0800
committer Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> 1527791513 -0700

f2fs: clean up symbol namespace

As Ted reported:

"Hi, I was looking at f2fs's sources recently, and I noticed that there
is a very large number of non-static symbols which don't have a f2fs
prefix.  There's well over a hundred (see attached below).

As one example, in fs/f2fs/dir.c there is:

unsigned char get_de_type(struct f2fs_dir_entry *de)

This function is clearly only useful for f2fs, but it has a generic
name.  This means that if any other file system tries to have the same
symbol name, there will be a symbol conflict and the kernel would not
successfully build.  It also means that when someone is looking f2fs
sources, it's not at all obvious whether a function such as
read_data_page(), invalidate_blocks(), is a generic kernel function
found in the fs, mm, or block layers, or a f2fs specific function.

You might want to fix this at some point.  Hopefully Kent's bcachefs
isn't similarly using genericly named functions, since that might
cause conflicts with f2fs's functions --- but just as this would be a
problem that we would rightly insist that Kent fix, this is something
that we should have rightly insisted that f2fs should have fixed
before it was integrated into the mainline kernel.

acquire_orphan_inode
add_ino_entry
add_orphan_inode
allocate_data_block
allocate_new_segments
alloc_nid
alloc_nid_done
alloc_nid_failed
available_free_memory
...."

This patch adds "f2fs_" prefix for all non-static symbols in order to:
a) avoid conflict with other kernel generic symbols;
b) to indicate the function is f2fs specific one instead of generic
one;

Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>