Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: drop dependency on <asm/machdep.h> in archrandom.h

[Michael Ellerman]

Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> archrandom.h includes <asm/machdep.h> to refer ppc_md. This causes
> circular header dependency, if generic nodemask.h  includes random.h:
>
> In file included from include/linux/cred.h:16,
>                  from include/linux/seq_file.h:13,
>                  from arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h:6,
>                  from arch/powerpc/include/asm/archrandom.h:5,
>                  from include/linux/random.h:109,
>                  from include/linux/nodemask.h:97,
>                  from include/linux/list_lru.h:12,
>                  from include/linux/fs.h:13,
>                  from include/linux/compat.h:17,
>                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:12:
> include/linux/sched.h:1203:9: error: unknown type name 'nodemask_t'
>  1203 |         nodemask_t                      mems_allowed;
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~
>
> Fix it by removing <asm/machdep.h> dependency from archrandom.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/archrandom.h |  9 +--------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c    | 11 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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