[PATCH v3 1/2] riscv: don't include kernel.h into alternative.h

From: Heiko Stuebner
Date: Sun May 21 2023 - 07:50:28 EST


From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxx>

This include is not currently needed for alternatives and creates
possible issues when we want to add alternatives to deeper kernel
infrastructure.

The issue in question came from trying to introduce Zawrs alternatives,
which resulted in a somewhat circular dependency like:

In file included from ../include/linux/bitops.h:34,
from ../include/linux/kernel.h:22,
from ../arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h:16,
from ../arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h:8,
from ../arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h:15,
from ../include/linux/list.h:11,
from ../include/linux/preempt.h:11,
from ../include/linux/spinlock.h:56,
from ../include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
from ../include/linux/gfp.h:7,
from ../include/linux/mm.h:7,
from ../arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h: In function ‘generic_test_bit_acquire’:
../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:140:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_load_acquire’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
140 | return 1UL & (smp_load_acquire(p) >> (nr & (BITS_PER_LONG-1)));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h
index 6a41537826a7..05885de6048c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE

#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <asm/hwcap.h>
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