linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] asm-generic: remove a broken and needless ifdef conditional

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a33ZApraQ5X+iK4MXtDJADF3AReBUS+GKDfmDhvZc16-w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:17:37 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] asm-generic: remove a broken and needless ifdef conditional

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 4:53 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 01:07:11PM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > Commit 527701eda5f1 ("lib: Add a generic version of devmem_is_allowed()")
> > introduces the config symbol GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED, but then
> > falsely refers to CONFIG_GENERIC_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED (note the missing LIB
> > in the reference) in ./include/asm-generic/io.h.
> >
> > Luckily, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns on non-existing configs:
> >
> > GENERIC_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
> > Referencing files: include/asm-generic/io.h
> >
> > The actual fix, though, is simply to not to make this function declaration
> > dependent on any kernel config. For architectures that intend to use
> > the generic version, the arch's 'select GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED' will
> > lead to picking the function definition, and for other architectures, this
> > function is simply defined elsewhere.
> >
> > The wrong '#ifndef' on a non-existing config symbol also always had the
> > same effect (although more by mistake than by intent). So, there is no
> > functional change.
> >
> > Remove this broken and needless ifdef conditional.
> >
> > Fixes: 527701eda5f1 ("lib: Add a generic version of devmem_is_allowed()")
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> > ---
>
> There is only one architecture which defines this as a static inline.
> Should that architecture include asm-generic/io.h, or if it already
> does, it may end up with a compilation error.
>
> So if arch/s390/include/asm/page.h can end up including asm-generic/io.h
> or if any file including for s390 can include its arch page.h and
> asm-generic/io.h then we'll still need the guard.
>
> This may compile today for s390 because s390 may not use asm-generic/io.h.
>

It looks like we never concluded this thread. I double-checked this
on s390 and confirmed that it has both the inline definition and the
extern declaration visible and this does not cause problems on any of
the compilers I tried (gcc-5 and gcc-12).

Generally speaking there is not really a need to hide extern declarations
behind an ifdef.

> So why not just keep the guard and correct this as intended?

That was what the original patch from Lukas did, but it caused regressions
because configurations actually relied on the declaration even when the
Kconfig option is disabled.

The current version of the patch was in linux-next for a while now without
causing extra issues, so I'm sending it out in my final fixes pull request
for 5.19.

      Arnd