Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: move tracing declarations from kernel.h to a dedicated header

[david laight]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 04:50:42 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 11:09:25PM +0000, david laight wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:44:46 +0200
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> 
> ...
 
> kernel.h elimination (in the form it exists right now) is very fruitful.
> However, you may help with the (say) ioctl.h or whatever you consider
> really fruitful, we all will thank you (no jokes).
> 

This is the first #include path for ioctl.h

In file included from ../include/asm-generic/ioctl.h:5,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/ioctl.h:1,
                 from ../include/uapi/linux/ioctl.h:5,
                 from ../include/uapi/linux/random.h:12,
                 from ../include/linux/random.h:10,
                 from ../include/linux/nodemask.h:94,
                 from ../include/linux/numa.h:6,
                 from ../include/linux/cpumask.h:17,
                 from ../arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:21,
                 from ../arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:102,
                 from ../include/linux/irqflags.h:18,
                 from ../include/linux/spinlock.h:59,
                 from ../include/linux/swait.h:7,
                 from ../include/linux/completion.h:12,
                 from ../include/linux/crypto.h:15,
                 from ../arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9:

Get past that and sched.h => processor.h => cpuid/api.h also
gets you to paravirt.h.
I suspect a lot of headers get pulled in like that.

	David