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* [RFC PATCH -next] Fix printk_once build errors due to __read_mostly
@ 2013-10-30 10:18 James Hogan
  2013-10-30 13:46 ` Joe Perches
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: James Hogan @ 2013-10-30 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joe Perches, Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-next, James Hogan, linux-metag

Commit 3e39c1ab04ba (printk: mark printk_once test variable
__read_mostly) added __read_mostly to the __print_once bool in the
printk_once() macro, but __read_mostly is defined in <linux/cache.h>
which isn't included from <linux/printk.h>. This results in build errors
like this:

arch/metag/mm/l2cache.c: In function 'meta_l2c_setup':
arch/metag/mm/l2cache.c:56: error: '__read_mostly' undeclared

This is fixed by adding an include of <linux/cache.h> from
<linux/printk.h> since I don't think printk_once() users should need to
include <linux/cache.h> for it to work.

Note that this actually adds a recursive include, since <linux/cache.h>
includes <linux/kernel.h>, which includes <linux/printk.h>. The actual
dependencies are all in macros so it doesn't actually seem to result in
any build failures, but it's clearly less than ideal.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
---
This build failure was caught in today's linux-next.

I'm not too keen on this due to the recursive include. Is it better to
just workaround the problem by including <linux/cache.h> from the .c
file that fails to build, or should the original patch be removed
instead?

 include/linux/printk.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
index abd42dd..b13d00e 100644
--- a/include/linux/printk.h
+++ b/include/linux/printk.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define __KERNEL_PRINTK__
 
 #include <stdarg.h>
+#include <linux/cache.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kern_levels.h>
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
-- 
1.8.1.2

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2013-10-30 20:48 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-30 22:58   ` Joe Perches
2013-10-30 23:01   ` [PATCH V2] printk/cache: Mark printk_once test variable __read_mostly Joe Perches
2013-10-31 13:35     ` James Hogan
2013-10-30 23:18   ` [RFC PATCH -next] Fix printk_once build errors due to __read_mostly Stephen Rothwell
2013-10-31 18:29   ` [PATCH V3] printk/cache: Mark printk_once test variable __read_mostly Joe Perches
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