linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] tree-sweep: Include linux/sched.h for might

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Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:51:09 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] tree-sweep: Include linux/sched.h for might_sleep
 users

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:52:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:22:23 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > > might_sleep is moving from linux/kernel.h to linux/sched.h, so any users
> > > need to include linux/sched.h
> > 
> > Really? <linux/sched.h> is the worst choice w.r.t. include hell.
> 
> Yes.  Mechanically adding sched.h inclusions into .h files will cause
> problems.
> 
> I've had decent success with this sort of thing by adding new,
> finer-grained headers.  Maybe include/linux/might_sleep.h would be a
> good starting point to fix whatever it was that this fixed.

Ok. I'll look into that and send new patches.

Some of it may be obsolete with Peter's recent preempt work.

> I think I'll make x86-include-linux-schedh-in-asm-uaccessh.patch,
> tree-sweep-include-linux-schedh-for-might_sleep-users.patch and
> sched-mark-should_resched-__always_inline.patch go away for now - I
> need a mergeable tree, fast.

Fair enough.

-Andi


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