Re: [PATCH] riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 11:16 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 06:11:11 PST (-0800), yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This commit removes redundant generic-y defines in
> > arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild.
> >
> > [1] It is redundant to define the same generic-y in both
> >     arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild and
> >     arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.
> >
> >     Remove the following generic-y:
> >
> >       errno.h
> >       fcntl.h
> >       ioctl.h
> >       ioctls.h
> >       ipcbuf.h
> >       mman.h
> >       msgbuf.h
> >       param.h
> >       poll.h
> >       posix_types.h
> >       resource.h
> >       sembuf.h
> >       setup.h
> >       shmbuf.h
> >       signal.h
> >       socket.h
> >       sockios.h
> >       stat.h
> >       statfs.h
> >       swab.h
> >       termbits.h
> >       termios.h
> >       types.h
> >
> > [2] It is redundant to define generic-y when arch-specific
> >     implementation exists in arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/*.h
> >
> >     Remove the following generic-y:
> >
> >       cacheflush.h
> >       dma-mapping.h
> >       module.h
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild | 26 --------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> > index 6a646d9..f7068f3 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> > @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
> >  generic-y += bugs.h
> > -generic-y += cacheflush.h
> >  generic-y += checksum.h
> >  generic-y += compat.h
> >  generic-y += cputime.h
> > @@ -7,18 +6,12 @@ generic-y += device.h
> >  generic-y += div64.h
> >  generic-y += dma.h
> >  generic-y += dma-contiguous.h
> > -generic-y += dma-mapping.h
> >  generic-y += emergency-restart.h
> > -generic-y += errno.h
> >  generic-y += exec.h
> >  generic-y += fb.h
> > -generic-y += fcntl.h
> >  generic-y += hardirq.h
> >  generic-y += hash.h
> >  generic-y += hw_irq.h
> > -generic-y += ioctl.h
> > -generic-y += ioctls.h
> > -generic-y += ipcbuf.h
> >  generic-y += irq_regs.h
> >  generic-y += irq_work.h
> >  generic-y += kdebug.h
> > @@ -27,34 +20,15 @@ generic-y += kvm_para.h
> >  generic-y += local.h
> >  generic-y += local64.h
> >  generic-y += mm-arch-hooks.h
> > -generic-y += mman.h
> > -generic-y += module.h
> > -generic-y += msgbuf.h
> >  generic-y += mutex.h
> > -generic-y += param.h
> >  generic-y += percpu.h
> > -generic-y += poll.h
> > -generic-y += posix_types.h
> >  generic-y += preempt.h
> > -generic-y += resource.h
> >  generic-y += scatterlist.h
> >  generic-y += sections.h
> > -generic-y += sembuf.h
> >  generic-y += serial.h
> > -generic-y += setup.h
> > -generic-y += shmbuf.h
> >  generic-y += shmparam.h
> > -generic-y += signal.h
> > -generic-y += socket.h
> > -generic-y += sockios.h
> > -generic-y += stat.h
> > -generic-y += statfs.h
> > -generic-y += swab.h
> > -generic-y += termbits.h
> > -generic-y += termios.h
> >  generic-y += topology.h
> >  generic-y += trace_clock.h
> > -generic-y += types.h
> >  generic-y += unaligned.h
> >  generic-y += user.h
> >  generic-y += vga.h
>
> Thanks.  These just sort of collected there because I hadn't trimmed them.  Is
> there a script that checks these?


No script is available for now, but
I'd like to turn on warnings to catch some cases:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10746823/


BTW, can I apply this to my tree
along with other cleanups?



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada