linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] kbuild: compile-test kernel headers to ensure they are self-contained

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Message-ID: <20190702164712.GA98338@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Jul 2019 12:47:12 -0400
From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org, Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] kbuild: compile-test kernel headers to ensure they
 are self-contained

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:58:45AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The headers in include/ are globally used in the kernel source tree
> to provide common APIs. They are included from external modules, too.
> 
> It will be useful to make as many headers self-contained as possible
> so that we do not have to rely on a specific include order.
> 
> There are more than 4000 headers in include/. In my rough analysis,
> 70% of them are already self-contained. With efforts, most of them
> can be self-contained.
> 
> For now, we must exclude more than 1000 headers just because they
> cannot be compiled as standalone units. I added them to header-test-.
> The blacklist was mostly generated by a script, so the reason of the
> breakage should be checked later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v4:
>   - Fix vmlinux build error
>   - Exclude more headers for sparc
> 
> Changes in v3:
>   - Exclude more headers
>    (Tested for allnoconfig + CONFIG_HEADER_TEST=y)
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - Add everything to test coverage, and exclude broken ones
>   - Rename 'Makefile' to 'Kbuild'
>   - Add CONFIG_KERNEL_HEADER_TEST option
> 
>  Makefile       |    1 +
>  include/Kbuild | 1253 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  init/Kconfig   |   11 +
>  3 files changed, 1265 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/Kbuild
[snip
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 74192de8ada6..e2e99544da8d 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -108,6 +108,17 @@ config HEADER_TEST
>  	  If you are a developer or tester and want to ensure the requested
>  	  headers are self-contained, say Y here. Otherwise, choose N.
>  
> +config KERNEL_HEADER_TEST
> +	bool "Compile test kernel headers"
> +	depends on HEADER_TEST
> +	help
> +	  Headers in include/ are used to build external moduls.

Nit:
							 modules.

Otherwise lgtm, thanks for the cc.

Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>