linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: omap3isp: Shuffle cacheflush.h and include mm.h

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Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 01:13:37 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: omap3isp: Shuffle cacheflush.h and include mm.h

Hi Geert,

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 09:02:51AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> CC Laurent
> 
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:37 AM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:
> > After mm.h was removed from the asm-generic version of cacheflush.h,
> > s390 allyesconfig shows several warnings of the following nature:
> >
> > In file included from ./arch/s390/include/generated/asm/cacheflush.h:1,
> >                  from drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c:42:
> > ./include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h:16:42: warning: 'struct mm_struct'
> > declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this
> > definition or declaration
> >
> > cacheflush.h does not include mm.h nor does it include any forward
> > declaration of these structures hence the warning. To avoid this,
> > include mm.h explicitly in this file and shuffle cacheflush.h below it.
> >
> > Fixes: 19c0054597a0 ("asm-generic: don't include <linux/mm.h> in cacheflush.h")
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> 
> Thanks for your patch!
> 
> > I am aware the fixes tag is kind of irrelevant because that SHA will
> > change in the next linux-next revision and this will probably get folded
> > into the original patch anyways but still.
> >
> > The other solution would be to add forward declarations of these structs
> > to the top of cacheflush.h, I just chose to do what Christoph did in the
> > original patch. I am happy to do that instead if you all feel that is
> > better.
> 
> That actually looks like a better solution to me, as it would address the
> problem for all users.
> 
> >  drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c
> > index a4ee6b86663e..54106a768e54 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c
> > @@ -39,8 +39,6 @@
> >   *     Troy Laramy <t-laramy@...com>
> >   */
> >
> > -#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> > -
> >  #include <linux/clk.h>
> >  #include <linux/clkdev.h>
> >  #include <linux/delay.h>
> > @@ -49,6 +47,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/i2c.h>
> >  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> >  #include <linux/mfd/syscon.h>
> > +#include <linux/mm.h>
> >  #include <linux/module.h>
> >  #include <linux/omap-iommu.h>
> >  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> > @@ -58,6 +57,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/sched.h>
> >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >
> > +#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> > +
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_DMA_USE_IOMMU
> >  #include <asm/dma-iommu.h>
> >  #endif
> 
> Why does this file need <asm/cacheflush.h> at all?
> It doesn't call any of the flush_*() functions, and seems to compile fine
> without (on arm32).
> 
> Perhaps it was included at the top intentionally, to override the definitions
> of copy_{to,from}_user_page()? Fortunately that doesn't seem to be the
> case, from a quick look at the assembler output.
> 
> So let's just remove the #include instead?

Sounds good to me. I can send a patch if needed or I suppose Andrew can
just make a small fixup patch for it. Let me know what I should do.

Cheers,
Nathan