linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Circular include dependencies

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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 22:10:06 +0900
From:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Circular include dependencies

> On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:20:34 +0100 Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Having discovered some circular include dependencies in the ARM header
> > files which were causing build issues, I created a script to walk ARM
> > includes and report any similar issues found - which includes traversing
> > any referenced linux/ includes.
> > 
> > It identified the following two in include/linux/:
> > 
> >   linux/mmzone.h <- linux/memory_hotplug.h <- linux/mmzone.h
> >   linux/mmzone.h <- linux/topology.h <- linux/mmzone.h
> > 
> > Checking them by hand reveals that these are real.  Whether they're
> > capable of causing a problem or not, I'm not going to comment on.
> > However, they're not a good idea and someone should probably look at
> > resolving the loops.
> 
> (cc's added).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I'm not sure who we could tap for the topology.h one.
> 
> A suitable (and often good) way of solving this is to identify the
> things which a.h needs from b.h and hoist them out into a new c.h and
> include that from both a.h and b.h.

Kame-san and I reviewed memory_hotplug.h.
We found its including was not necessary certainly.

This is the patch to fix it. I tested on IA64, and checked cross-compile
on powerpc. Kame-san tested this on x86-64.

Thanks for your report.

Bye.

----
Fix no need including of mmzone.h in memory_hotplug.h

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>

---
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Index: dptest/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
===================================================================
--- dptest.orig/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h	2008-05-21 10:56:00.000000000 +0900
+++ dptest/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h	2008-05-26 20:32:06.000000000 +0900
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H
 #define __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H
 
-#include <linux/mmzone.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 
-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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