From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] include: Move compat_timespec/ timeval to compat_time.h
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:48:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8480da9-afe9-8a43-9c47-50919215a2de@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0Gm1L70EaFzJBk0drRNKtX0FE22BHOSrXBgH1wNfKZ5A@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/06/2018 01:46 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Christian Borntraeger
> <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 01/16/2018 03:18 AM, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
>>> All the current architecture specific defines for these
>>> are the same. Refactor these common defines to a common
>>> header file.
>>>
>>> The new common linux/compat_time.h is also useful as it
>>> will eventually be used to hold all the defines that
>>> are needed for compat time types that support non y2038
>>> safe types. New architectures need not have to define these
>>> new types as they will only use new y2038 safe syscalls.
>>> This file can be deleted after y2038 when we stop supporting
>>> non y2038 safe syscalls.
>>
>> You are now include a <linux/*.h> from several asm files
>> (
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/stat.h
>> arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h
>> arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
>> arch/x86/include/asm/sys_ia32.h
>> )
>> It works, and it is done in many places, but it looks somewhat weird.
>> Would it make sense to have an asm-generic/compate-time.h instead? Asking for
>> opinions here.
>
> I don't think we have such a rule. If a header file is common to all
> architectures (i.e. no architecture uses a different implementation),
> it should be in include/linux rather than include/asm-generic, regardless
> of whether it can be used by assembler files or not.
>
>>> --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
>>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>>> #include <asm/chpid.h>
>>> #include <asm/io.h>
>>> #include <asm/sysinfo.h>
>>> -#include <asm/compat.h>
>>> +#include <linux/compat.h>
>>> #include <asm/diag.h>
>>> #include <asm/cio.h>
>>> #include <asm/ccwdev.h>
>>
>> Can you move that into the other includes (where all the other <linux/*> includes are.
>
> Good catch, this is definitely a rule we have ;-)
FWIW, this was also broken for
arch/x86/include/asm/sys_ia32.h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-06 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 2:18 [PATCH v3 00/10] posix_clocks: Prepare syscalls for 64 bit time_t conversion Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] compat: Make compat helpers independent of CONFIG_COMPAT Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] include: Move compat_timespec/ timeval to compat_time.h Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 9:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-01-16 15:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-02 21:57 ` James Hogan
2018-03-04 20:45 ` Helge Deller
2018-03-05 9:30 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-06 12:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-06 12:48 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2018-03-06 22:58 ` Deepa Dinamani
2018-03-12 17:59 ` Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] compat: enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] arch: introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] arch: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] posix-clocks: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] include: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] change time types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] nanosleep: change time types to " Deepa Dinamani
2018-01-16 15:18 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] posix_clocks: Prepare syscalls for 64 bit time_t conversion Arnd Bergmann
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