It's only used in the sparse.c now. So we can make it static and further
clean up the relevant code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127093221.63524-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>