linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] lib/string: shrink lib/string.i via IWYU

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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 22:25:50 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tanzirh@...gle.com,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick DeSaulniers <nnn@...gle.com>,
	llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string: shrink lib/string.i via IWYU

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 01:39:47PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Hmm...how does one know that linux/bits.h is the higher-level include
> of asm/bitsperlong.h?

I think this the wrong way of thinking.  In general we should always
avoid including asm/ headers unless there is no other way.  No other
way is not formalized right now, but I think the answer is roughly if
no linux/ headers includes that asm header.  This will probably give
a few wrong results at the moment, but it's probably worth fixing
them up.