Re: [PATCH] asm-generic/io.h: remove unnecessary #include of <linux/vmalloc.h>

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue May 09 2017 - 05:02:15 EST


On Tue 09-05-17 10:50:45, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> After commit 1f5307b1e094 ("mm, vmalloc: properly track vmalloc users")
> the build for ARCH=nios2 fails with:
>
> In file included from ./include/asm-generic/io.h:767:0,
> from ./arch/nios2/include/asm/io.h:61,
> from ./include/linux/io.h:25,
> from ./arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h:18,
> from ./include/linux/mm.h:70,
> from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:6,
> from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:9,
> from ./arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/elf.h:23,
> from ./arch/nios2/include/asm/elf.h:22,
> from ./include/linux/elf.h:4,
> from ./include/linux/module.h:15,
> from init/main.c:16:
> ./include/linux/vmalloc.h: In function '__vmalloc_node_flags':
> ./include/linux/vmalloc.h:99:40: error: 'PAGE_KERNEL' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'GFP_KERNEL'?
>
> which is due to the newly added #include <asm/pgtable.h>, which on nios2
> includes <linux/io.h> and thus <asm/io.h> and <asm-generic/io.h> which
> again includes <linux/vmalloc.h>.
>
> It turns out the #include <linux/vmalloc.h> in <asm-generic/io.h> isn't
> necessary at all since none of it definitions are used there, so remove
> it alltogether.

Thanks for your fix but I have already posted a different one [1] which
doesn't include pgtable.h because this turned out to be a problem on
m68k already. I am just waiting for Andrew to drop the previous patch
and replace it with the one pointed out.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503063750.GC1236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Build tested on
> - nios2: 10m50_defconfig
> - x86: allyesconfig, various randconfigs
> - arm: tegra_defconfig, various randconfigs
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/asm-generic/io.h | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/io.h b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> index 7ef015eb3403..fe5e01fbed54 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> @@ -764,7 +764,6 @@ static inline void iowrite64_rep(volatile void __iomem *addr,
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>
> -#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> #define __io_virt(x) ((void __force *)(x))
>
> #ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP
> --
> 2.12.2
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs