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Date:   Mon, 23 May 2022 07:24:52 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        vbabka@...e.cz, penberg@...nel.org, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev,
        iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] printk: stop including cache.h from printk.h

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:58:19PM -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> An inclusion of cache.h in printk.h was added in 2014 in
> commit c28aa1f0a847 ("printk/cache: mark printk_once test variable
> __read_mostly") in order to bring in the definition of __read_mostly. The
> usage of __read_mostly was later removed in commit 3ec25826ae33 ("printk:
> Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset")
> which made the inclusion of cache.h unnecessary, so remove it.
> 
> We have a small amount of code that depended on the inclusion of cache.h
> from printk.h; fix that code to include the appropriate header.
> 
> This fixes a circular inclusion on arm64 (linux/printk.h -> linux/cache.h
> -> asm/cache.h -> linux/kasan-enabled.h -> linux/static_key.h ->
> linux/jump_label.h -> linux/bug.h -> asm/bug.h -> linux/printk.h) that
> would otherwise be introduced by the next patch.
> 
> Build tested using {allyesconfig,defconfig} x {arm64,x86_64}.

But not powerpc:corenet64_smp_defconfig, where it results in lots of
build errors such as

powerpc64-linux-ld: fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.o:(.bss+0x0):
	multiple definition of `____cacheline_aligned';
	fs/freevxfs/vxfs_bmap.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here

Reverting this patch fixes the problem.

Guenter

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# bad: [534aa1dc975ac883ad89110534585a96630802a0] printk: stop including cache.h from printk.h
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# first bad commit: [534aa1dc975ac883ad89110534585a96630802a0] printk: stop including cache.h from printk.h