linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove unneeded includes of <asm/pgalloc.h>

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:41:43 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove unneeded includes of <asm/pgalloc.h>

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 4:35 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
>
> In the most cases <asm/pgalloc.h> header is required only for allocations
> of page table memory. Most of the .c files that include that header do not
> use symbols declared in <asm/pgalloc.h> and do not require that header.
>
> As for the other header files that used to include <asm/pgalloc.h>, it is
> possible to move that include into the .c file that actually uses symbols
> from <asm/pgalloc.h> and drop the include from the header file.
>
> The process was somewhat automated using
>
>         sed -i -E '/[<"]asm\/pgalloc\.h/d' \
>                 $(grep -L -w -f /tmp/xx \
>                         $(git grep -E -l '[<"]asm/pgalloc\.h'))
>
> where /tmp/xx contains all the symbols defined in
> arch/*/include/asm/pgalloc.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>

For the m68k part:
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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