unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags);
 extern int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct user_struct *user);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
-extern bool shmem_mapping(struct address_space *mapping);
+extern const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops;
+static inline bool shmem_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+       return mapping->a_ops == &shmem_aops;
+}
 #else
 static inline bool shmem_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 
 }
 
 static const struct super_operations shmem_ops;
-static const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops;
+const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops;
 static const struct file_operations shmem_file_operations;
 static const struct inode_operations shmem_inode_operations;
 static const struct inode_operations shmem_dir_inode_operations;
        struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
        struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(inode->i_sb);
 
-       if (inode->i_mapping->a_ops == &shmem_aops) {
+       if (shmem_mapping(inode->i_mapping)) {
                shmem_unacct_size(info->flags, inode->i_size);
                inode->i_size = 0;
                shmem_truncate_range(inode, 0, (loff_t)-1);
        }
 
        /* shmem_symlink() */
-       if (mapping->a_ops != &shmem_aops)
+       if (!shmem_mapping(mapping))
                goto alloc_nohuge;
        if (shmem_huge == SHMEM_HUGE_DENY || sgp_huge == SGP_NOHUGE)
                goto alloc_nohuge;
        return inode;
 }
 
-bool shmem_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
-{
-       return mapping->a_ops == &shmem_aops;
-}
-
 static int shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
                                  pmd_t *dst_pmd,
                                  struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
        kmem_cache_destroy(shmem_inode_cachep);
 }
 
-static const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
+const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
        .writepage      = shmem_writepage,
        .set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
 #endif
        .error_remove_page = generic_error_remove_page,
 };
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shmem_aops);
 
 static const struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {
        .mmap           = shmem_mmap,
        struct page *page;
        int error;
 
-       BUG_ON(mapping->a_ops != &shmem_aops);
+       BUG_ON(!shmem_mapping(mapping));
        error = shmem_getpage_gfp(inode, index, &page, SGP_CACHE,
                                  gfp, NULL, NULL, NULL);
        if (error)