From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hskinnemoen@atmel.com, cooloney@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
ralf@linux-mips.org, dhowells@redhat.com, matthew@wil.cx,
chris@zankel.net, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-next][PATCH] revert headers_check fix: ia64, fpu.h
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:55:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090206155512.GF13758@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233935328.3209.30.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:18:48PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:33 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:59:01PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > Jaswinder Singh Rajput (2):
> > > Neither asm/types.h nor linux/types.h is required for arch/ia64/include/asm/fpu.h
> > > make linux/types.h as assembly safe
> >
> > I continue to disagree with the need for the second patch.
>
> Like Ingo suggested:
>
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:58 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Well types.h easily gets included in other files though, which might be
> > partially suited for assembly - and have !__ASSEMBLY__ portions that rely on
> > a types.h include.
> >
> > So making this file an invariant in .S files does not sound like a bad idea
> > to me. Is there any downside?
> >
>
> We cannot see any downside of this patch.
>
> But we can see upside of this patch is:
> 1. No need to protect linux/types.h with #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ in many
> files
> 2. So we trying to replace multiple #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ with one.
The point is:
1. If the parent include needs to include linux/types.h to get at C
types _and_ the include file needs to also be included by assembly
code, it itself needs to have #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ to protect those
uses from the assembly code.
In that case, the linux/types.h include should be contained within
the #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ .. #endif block along with all C only
parts of the header file.
2. if it doesn't need C types from linux/types.h, then that header has
no business including linux/types.h, and the include should be
eliminated to save the already dirbolically slow compiler from
having to read and parse that file, and more importantly allowing
it to eliminate linux/types.h from the build dependencies.
Yes, you can wrap linux/types.h with that ifndef, and yes it will fix
any problems, but I view it as a hack rather than fixing the real problem
which is lazyness by code writers to get their include dependencies right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-06 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-31 7:10 [git pull -tip] headers_check fixes for other architectures Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-31 16:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-01 6:30 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-01 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-01 16:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-01 17:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-01 17:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-01 17:31 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-01 18:33 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-02 17:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-02 18:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-02 18:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-02 18:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 17:55 ` Tony Luck
2009-02-05 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-05 19:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 2:06 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 2:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-06 2:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 14:18 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 14:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 14:34 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 14:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 14:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 15:00 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 15:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 15:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 16:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 17:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-02-06 17:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 18:11 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 18:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-02-06 19:31 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-08 5:50 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-09 12:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 8:19 ` [linux-next][PATCH] revert headers_check fix: ia64, fpu.h KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-06 8:53 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 9:11 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-06 14:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 15:29 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 15:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 15:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 15:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 16:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 15:48 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-06 15:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2009-02-06 16:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 16:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 16:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 16:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 17:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 17:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-02-06 17:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-02-06 17:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 18:53 ` Luck, Tony
2009-02-06 13:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
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