Re: [PATCH net-next v9 10/13] mm: page_frag: introduce prepare/probe/commit API

From: Yunsheng Lin
Date: Mon Jul 08 2024 - 06:58:29 EST


On 2024/7/8 1:12, Alexander Duyck wrote:

...

> The issue is the dependency mess that has been created with patch 11
> in the set. Again you are conflating patches which makes this really
> hard to debug or discuss as I make suggestions on one patch and you
> claim it breaks things that are really due to issues in another patch.
> So the issue is you included this header into include/linux/sched.h
> which is included in linux/mm_types.h. So what happens then is that
> you have to include page_frag_cache.h *before* you can include the
> bits from mm_types.h
>
> What might make more sense to solve this is to look at just moving the
> page_frag_cache into mm_types_task.h and then having it replace the
> page_frag struct there since mm_types.h will pull that in anyway. That
> way sched.h can avoid having to pull in page_frag_cache.h.

It seems the above didn't work either, as asm-offsets.c does depend on
mm_types_task.h too.

In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:16,
from ./include/linux/page_frag_cache.h:10,
from ./include/linux/mm_types_task.h:11,
from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:22,
from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
from ./include/linux/slab.h:16,
from ./include/linux/resource_ext.h:11,
from ./include/linux/acpi.h:13,
from ./include/acpi/apei.h:9,
from ./include/acpi/ghes.h:5,
from ./include/linux/arm_sdei.h:8,
from arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
./include/linux/mmap_lock.h: In function ‘mmap_assert_locked’:
./include/linux/mmap_lock.h:65:23: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘const struct mm_struct’
65 | rwsem_assert_held(&mm->mmap_lock);


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