Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: break dependencies on x86's RM header

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: break dependencies on x86's RM header
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:33:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu8XY_VCyi0bRqf2E7g_PXyHU83w-e+JvzeCBc+X1Xcrbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191119122217.GA24878@gmail.com>

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 13:22, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
> * Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 12:10, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > * Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > x86's asm/realmode.h, which defines low level structures, variables and
> > > > helpers used to bring up APs during SMP boot, ends up getting included in
> > > > practically every nook and cranny of the kernel because the address used
> > > > by ACPI for resuming from S3 also happens to be stored in the real mode
> > > > header, and ACPI bleeds the dependency into its widely included headers.
> > > >
> > > > As a result, modifying realmode.h for even the most trivial change to the
> > > > boot code triggers a full kernel rebuild, which is frustrating to say the
> > > > least as it some of the most difficult code to get exactly right *and* is
> > > > also some of the most functionally isolated code in the kernel.
> > > >
> > > > To break the kernel's widespread dependency on realmode.h, add a wrapper
> > > > in the aforementioned ACPI S3 code to access the real mode header instead
> > > > of derefencing the header directly in asm/acpi.h and thereby exposing it
> > > > to the world via linux/acpi.h.
> > > >
> > > > Build tested on x86 with allyesconfig and allmodconfig, so hopefully there
> > > > aren't more build issues lurking, but at this point it wouldn't surprise
> > > > me in the least if this somehow manages to break the build.
> > > >
> > > > Based on tip/master, commit ceceaf1f12ba ("Merge branch 'WIP.x86/cleanups'").
> > > >
> > > > Patch Synopsis:
> > > >   - Patches 01-09 fix a variety of build errors that arise when patch 12
> > > >     drops realmode.h from asm/acpi.h.  Most of the errors are quite absurb
> > > >     as they have no relation whatsoever to x86's RM boot code, but occur
> > > >     because realmode.h happens to include asm/io.h.
> > >
> > > Yeah, these kind of parasitic header dependencies are the main driving
> > > force behind kernel header spaghetti hell: it's super easy to add a new
> > > header, but very hard to remove them...
> > >
> > > Hence they practically only accumulate.
> > >
> > > As a result header removal patches get priority, from me at least. :-)
> > >
> > > >   - Patch 10 removes a spurious include of realmode.h from an ACPI header.
> > > >
> > > >   - Patches 11 and 12 implement the wrapper and move it out of acpi.h.
> > >
> > > So if the ACPI maintainers are fine with -tip carrying patches #11 and #12
> > > then I'd be glad to route these patches upstream.
> > >
> > > I've applied them to tip:WIP.core/headers as a work-in-progress tree, and
> > > I'm testing them on randconfigs to make sure there's no broken
> > > dependencies. I'll wait for the ACPI acks.
> > >
> > > I edited the title of patch 12 slightly, to:
> > >
> > >    c8bceb321209: x86/ACPI/sleep: Move acpi_wakeup_address() definition into sleep.c, remove <asm/realmode.h> from <asm/acpi.h>
> > >
> > > to make sure the big header dependency change is obvious at first sight.
> > >
> >
> > I'm fine with the patches but can we drop the fixes headers please?
> > This doesn't actually fix anything, and touching early boot stuff for
> > no good reason should be avoided imo.
>
> Agreed and done.
>

Thanks Ingo