Re: [PATCH] mm: fix build warnings in <linux/compaction.h>

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:31:43 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 03:27:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:06:01 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> > > 
> > > Fix build warnings when struct node is not defined:
> > > 
> > > In file included from ../include/linux/balloon_compaction.h:48:0,
> > >                  from ../mm/balloon_compaction.c:11:
> > > ../include/linux/compaction.h:237:51: warning: 'struct node' declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
> > >  static inline int compaction_register_node(struct node *node)
> > > ../include/linux/compaction.h:237:51: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want [enabled by default]
> > > ../include/linux/compaction.h:242:54: warning: 'struct node' declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
> > >  static inline void compaction_unregister_node(struct node *node)
> > > 
> > > ...
> > >
> > > --- linux-next-20160609.orig/include/linux/compaction.h
> > > +++ linux-next-20160609/include/linux/compaction.h
> > > @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ extern int compaction_register_node(stru
> > >  extern void compaction_unregister_node(struct node *node);
> > >  
> > >  #else
> > > +struct node;
> > >  
> > >  static inline int compaction_register_node(struct node *node)
> > >  {
> > 
> > Well compaction.h has no #includes at all and obviously depends on its
> > including file(s) to bring in the definitions which it needs.
> > 
> > So if we want to keep that (odd) model then we should fix
> > mm-balloon-use-general-non-lru-movable-page-feature.patch thusly:
> 
> How about fixing such odd model in this chance?
> Otherwise, every non-lru page migration driver should include
> both compaction.h and node.h which is weired to me. :(
> 
> I think there are two ways.
> 
> 1. compaction.h include node.h directly so user of compaction.h don't
> need to take care about node.h
> 
> 2. Randy's fix
> 
> I looked up who use compaction_[un]register_node and found it's used
> only drivers/base/node.c which already include node.h so no problem.
> 
> 1) I believe it's rare those functions to be needed by other files.
> 2) Those functions works if CONFIG_NUMA as well as CONFIG_COMPACTION
> which is rare configuration for many not-server system.

If we're going to convert compaction.h to be standalone then it will
need to include a whole bunch of things - what's special about node.h?

> So, I prefer Randy's fix.

Doesn't matter much.  But note that Randy's patch declared struct node
at line 233.  It should be sone at approximatley line 1, to prevent
future duplicated declarations.