linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 01/37] fix missing vmalloc.h includes

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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 23:48:12 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/37] fix missing vmalloc.h includes

On 03.04.24 23:41, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 02:12:40PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 09:36:23AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>>> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
>>>
>>> The next patch drops vmalloc.h from a system header in order to fix
>>> a circular dependency; this adds it to all the files that were pulling
>>> it in implicitly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
>>> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
>>
>> I bisected an error that I see when building ARCH=loongarch allmodconfig
>> to commit 302519d9e80a ("asm-generic/io.h: kill vmalloc.h dependency")
>> in -next, which tells me that this patch likely needs to contain
>> something along the following lines, as LoongArch was getting
>> include/linux/sizes.h transitively through the vmalloc.h include in
>> include/asm-generic/io.h.
> 
> gcc doesn't appear to be packaged for loongarch for debian (most other
> cross compilers are), so that's going to make it hard for me to test
> anything...

The latest cross-compilers from Arnd [1] include a 13.2.0 one for 
loongarch64 that works for me. Just in case you haven't heard of Arnds 
work before and want to give it a shot.

[1] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb