linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 6/6] x86/cpu: <asm/processor.h>: Do not include the CPUID API header

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Message-ID: <20250722065448.413503-7-darwi@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:54:31 +0200
From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@...utronix.de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	x86@...nel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	x86-cpuid@...ts.linux.dev,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] x86/cpu: <asm/processor.h>: Do not include the CPUID API header

<asm/processor.h> includes the main CPUID API header <asm/cpuid/api.h>
but it does not need it.

Remove the include.

Note, this allows the CPUID API header to include <asm/processor.h> at a
later step, which is needed for the upcoming CPUID model and parser,
without introducing a circular dependency.

Note, all call sites which implicitly included the CPUID API header
through <asm/processor.h> have been already modified to explicitly
include the CPUID API instead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index bde58f6510ac..910e36b0c00d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ struct vm86;
 #include <uapi/asm/sigcontext.h>
 #include <asm/current.h>
 #include <asm/cpufeatures.h>
-#include <asm/cpuid/api.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
 #include <asm/percpu.h>
-- 
2.50.1