linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] refcount: trim headers

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Date:   Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:46:17 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refcount: trim headers


* Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:36:32AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > --- a/include/linux/refcount.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/refcount.h
> > >  #include <linux/atomic.h>
> > > -#include <linux/mutex.h>
> > > -#include <linux/spinlock.h>
> > > -#include <linux/kernel.h>
> > > +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> > > +#include <linux/spinlock_types.h>
> > > +
> > > +struct mutex;
> 
> > Doesn't build on x86-64 defconfig...
> 
> Yeah, it doesn't :-(
> Is this going to go through -tip?
> Or I'll build test over both trees.

Yeah, refcount changes go through the locking tree, so testing it against -tip 
would be useful.

Thanks,

	Ingo