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

From: Yury Norov
Date: Mon Jul 25 2022 - 12:20:01 EST


On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:28:12AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:19 AM Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> ...
>
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_power_off);
>
> ^^^ (Note this and read below)
>
> ...
>
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_get_random_seed_long);
>
> It can't be like this. Brief browsing of the callees shows that.

Is my understanding correct that you're suggesting to make it GPL?

ppc_md is exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL(), and the function is in header,
so it's available for non-GPL code now. I don't want to change it.