linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] book3s/64: avoid circular header inclusion in mmu-hash.h

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Date:   Thu, 4 Oct 2018 13:53:08 +0530
From:   "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] book3s/64: avoid circular header inclusion in
 mmu-hash.h

On 10/4/18 1:50 PM, Christophe LEROY wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 03/10/2018 à 06:24, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
>> On Mon,  1 Oct 2018 12:30:19 +0000 (UTC)
>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> wrote:
>>
>>> When activating CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK, linux/sched.h
>>> includes asm/current.h. This generates a circular dependency.
>>> To avoid that, asm/processor.h shall not be included in mmu-hash.h
>>>
>>> In order to do that, this patch moves into a new header called
>>> asm/task_size.h the information from asm/processor.h requires by
>>> mmu-hash.h
>>
>> Doesn't look like you use this header in 32-bit code. Put task_size.h
>> in asm/64/ maybe?
> 
> There is no asm/64/ dir at the time being, only book3s/64/ and nohash/64/
> 
> I'm thinking about leaving it in asm/ but renaming it task_size_user64.h
> 

Quiet a lot of that is book3s 64 specifi because we have there.

#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES)
/*
  * Max value currently used:
  */


-aneesh