Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date

[Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>]

On 9/11/26 4:46 PM, Petr Pavlu wrote:
> The usermode helper declarations were previously provided by linux/kmod.h
> but commit c1f3fa2a4fde ("kmod: split off umh headers into its own file")
> moved them to linux/umh.h in 2017. Add explicit includes of linux/umh.h to
> files that use usermode helpers and remove linux/kmod.h where it is no
> longer needed.
> 
> Also add a missing include of linux/sysctl.h to kernel/time/jiffies.c.
> 
> Finally, clean up linux/kmod.h so that it includes only the headers that it
> actually requires, importantly removing the compat linux/umh.h include.
> 
> This cleanup is motivated by trying to reduce the preprocessed size of
> linux/module.h, which includes linux/kmod.h. linux/module.h appears in
> roughly 15k #include directives across the kernel. This makes it a "hot"
> header, so it should avoid pulling in unnecessary definitions. Note that
> this series doesn't immediately improve the situation, since most of the
> files included by linux/kmod.h are, for now, also included by
> linux/module.h through other paths.
> 
> Apologies for the wide distribution. Acked-bys are appreciated.

I've queued the series on modules-next for 7.4-rc1.

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Thanks,
Petr