linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v9 10/13] mm: page_frag: introduce prepare/probe/commit API

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <83cf5a36-055a-f590-9d41-59c45f93e7c5@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 18:58:07 +0800
From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
CC: Yunsheng Lin <yunshenglin0825@...il.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 10/13] mm: page_frag: introduce
 prepare/probe/commit API

On 2024/7/8 1:12, Alexander Duyck wrote:

...

> The issue is the dependency mess that has been created with patch 11
> in the set. Again you are conflating patches which makes this really
> hard to debug or discuss as I make suggestions on one patch and you
> claim it breaks things that are really due to issues in another patch.
> So the issue is you included this header into include/linux/sched.h
> which is included in linux/mm_types.h. So what happens then is that
> you have to include page_frag_cache.h *before* you can include the
> bits from mm_types.h
> 
> What might make more sense to solve this is to look at just moving the
> page_frag_cache into mm_types_task.h and then having it replace the
> page_frag struct there since mm_types.h will pull that in anyway. That
> way sched.h can avoid having to pull in page_frag_cache.h.

It seems the above didn't work either, as asm-offsets.c does depend on
mm_types_task.h too.

In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:16,
                 from ./include/linux/page_frag_cache.h:10,
                 from ./include/linux/mm_types_task.h:11,
                 from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:22,
                 from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
                 from ./include/linux/slab.h:16,
                 from ./include/linux/resource_ext.h:11,
                 from ./include/linux/acpi.h:13,
                 from ./include/acpi/apei.h:9,
                 from ./include/acpi/ghes.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/arm_sdei.h:8,
                 from arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
./include/linux/mmap_lock.h: In function ‘mmap_assert_locked’:
./include/linux/mmap_lock.h:65:23: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘const struct mm_struct’
   65 |  rwsem_assert_held(&mm->mmap_lock);


> .
>