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Message-ID: <20251223164202.34ea5015.alex@shazbot.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:42:02 -0700
From: Alex Williamson <alex@...zbot.org>
To: David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
Cc: Alex Mastro <amastro@...com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Josh Hilke <jrhilke@...gle.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Raghavendra
 Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Wei Yang
 <richard.weiyang@...il.com>, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfio: selftests: Clean up <uapi/linux/types.h>
 includes

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:38:16 +0000
David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com> wrote:

> Small clean up series to eliminate the extra includes of
> <uapi/linux/types.h> from various VFIO selftests files. This include is
> not causing any problems now, but it is causing benign typedef
> redifinitions. Those redifinitions will become a problem when the VFIO
> selftests library is built into KVM selftests, since KVM selftests build
> with -std=gnu99.
> 
> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
> Cc: Josh Hilke <jrhilke@...gle.com>
> 
> David Matlack (2):
>   tools include: Add definitions for __aligned_{l,b}e64
>   vfio: selftests: Drop <uapi/linux/types.h> includes
> 
>  tools/include/linux/types.h                               | 8 ++++++++
>  .../selftests/vfio/lib/include/libvfio/iova_allocator.h   | 1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/iommu.c                  | 1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/iova_allocator.c         | 1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/vfio_pci_device.c        | 1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/vfio/vfio_dma_mapping_test.c      | 1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/vfio/vfio_iommufd_setup_test.c    | 1 -
>  7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: d721f52e31553a848e0e9947ca15a49c5674aef3

Applied to vfio for-linus branch for v6.19.  Thanks,

Alex