Re: [PATCH 0/4] Remove problematic include in <asm/set_memory.h>

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> On 11/12/2024 06:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 06:46:06PM +0000, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> >> The need for this series arose from a completely unrelated series [1].
> >> Long story short, that series causes <linux/mm.h> to include
> >> <linux/set_memory.h>, which doesn't feel too unreasonable.
> > It is entirely unreasoable. <linux/mm.h> is inclued just about
> > everywhere and should not grow more fringe includes.
> 
> Understood, I did wonder about that. Then I suppose the best course of
> action for the problematic patch in that other series [3] is to move
> pagetable_{alloc,free} out of linux/mm.h.

Yes, adding a new header for the page table helpers only used by arch
code is probably a good idea. Or maybe they can actually fit into
asm-generic/pgalloc.h?