linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: smp: Include smp

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 16:20:37 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: smp: Include smp_plat.h from smp.h

On 5/30/19 4:17 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 04:14:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 5/30/19 4:05 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> Hi ARM64 maintainers,
>>>
>>> This patch series aims at enabling irq-bcm7038-l1.c on
>>> ARM64/ARCH_BRCMSTB, this driver makes use of cpu_logical_map[] and in
>>> order to avoid adding a CONFIG_ARM64 conditional inclusion of
>>> smp_plat.h, instead smp.h includes smp_plat.h, which is in turn included
>>> by linux/smp.h.
>>>
>>> If you like the approach, I would suggest to carry that through the
>>> Broadcom ARM64 SoC pull request for 5.3.
>>
>> ARM (32-bit) needs the same thing kind of thing so a conditional include
>> may be appropriate after all...
> 
> The whole idea of the smp_plat.h vs smp.h separation is to avoid
> including lots of arch-private stuff in the rest of the kernel
> build, thereby exposing arch-private stuff to the world.  I'm be
> opposed to that.

I was on the fence, sent it just in case, but ended up doing this:

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1082410/

will take patch #2 through the Broadcom ARM64 SoC tree once this patch
above gets accepted.
-- 
Florian