Re: [PATCH] mm: add some missing includes to mm-local headers

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 8/4/26 13:02, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 12:45:22PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> On 8/4/26 12:08, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
>>> There are a number of internal headers local to mm/ which reference
>>> functions and data types without including the relevant headers.
>>>
>>> mm/vma.h is a special case that intentionally does not include additional
>>> headers, but the others are not.
>>>
>>> This breaks tooling like clangd (which is where I noticed this), though the
>>> build is OK due to the C files including the headers happening to include
>>> required dependencies.
>>>
>>> It's better to be explicit about dependencies anyway, so add the missing
>>> includes and fix clangd as a bonus.
>>
>> I'm curious, how did you identify these? The mm/vmalloc.h is rather easy, but I wonder about
>> e.g., mm/shuffle.h including mmzone.h.
> 
> Well I got AI to look them up ;) but I pared down what it gave me to a simpler
> subset and checked everything so I don't consider myself in a state of
> slopper-sin :)
> 
> [this kind of check ideas, look things up stuff I don't consider warrants an
> Assisted-by tag btw].
> 
> The headers for everything but shuffle.h are obvious, so that's the tricky one -
> it's for pg_data_t and struct zone specifically.
> 
> How I discovered this with clangd initially was - Do something like 'C-c l g r' or
> 'C-c l g g' in emacs via LSP and it reports 'no symbols' for something I _know_ is
> compiled in.

emacs ...  there's your problem :P

Thanks for the explanation, I'm afraid this might become a whack-a-mole without
a proper way to detect this automatically. But that does not really seem doable
easily.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

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Cheers,

David