Such declaration is needed to comply with MISRA C Rule 8.4, because a compatible declaration is not visible in xen/common/page_alloc.c, where the variable is defined. That variable can't yet be static because of the lack of support from ARM and PPC for NUMA.
No functional change. Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetr...@bugseng.com> --- Having this declaration essentially sidesteps the current impossibility of having a static variable, as described in the comments in ARM and PCC's asm/numa.h. --- xen/include/xen/mm.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/xen/include/xen/mm.h b/xen/include/xen/mm.h index 3d9b2d05a5c8..a13a9a46ced7 100644 --- a/xen/include/xen/mm.h +++ b/xen/include/xen/mm.h @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ int destroy_xen_mappings(unsigned long s, unsigned long e); /* Retrieve the MFN mapped by VA in Xen virtual address space. */ mfn_t xen_map_to_mfn(unsigned long va); +extern mfn_t first_valid_mfn; + /* * Create only non-leaf page table entries for the * page range in Xen virtual address space. -- 2.34.1
