linux-kernel - Re: [patch 22/50] rbtree: Split out the rbtree type definitions

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:31:09 -0300
From:   Arnaldo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 22/50] rbtree: Split out the rbtree type definitions



On July 14, 2021 6:24:16 AM GMT-03:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
>> 
>> rtmutex.h needs the definition of struct rb_root_cached. rbtree.h
>includes
>> kernel.h which includes spinlock.h. That works nicely for non-RT
>enabled
>> kernels, but on RT enabled kernels spinlocks are based on rtmutexes
>which
>> creates another circular header dependency as spinlocks.h will
>require
>> rtmutex.h.
>> 
>> Split out the type definitions and move them into their own header
>file so
>> the rtmutex header can include just those.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/rbtree.h       | 30 +-----------------------------
>>  include/linux/rbtree_types.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>This will mess up the tools/include/linux/ copy of these headers...

Please don't worry about that, it's a copy, done that way to avoid burdening kernel developers, I'll check and adapt :-)

- Arnaldo

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