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From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: PAGE_ALIGN() compile breakage
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:34:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488A1CB6.5090707@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080725022547.a05ea755.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:14:55 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ideally, all headers should be self-contained. IOW, they should #include 
>> everything they use.
> 
> Yup.  And the core reason for our headers mess is that the headers do
> too much stuff, and cnosequently demand a large dependency trail.
> 
>> But TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE in asm/processor.h on some architectures uses 
>> PAGE_ALIGN() that got moved from asm/page.h to linux/mm.h .
> 
> Probably mm.h should be split up - put the simple things (usually
> declarations) into one "early" header file and leave the more
> heavyweight things (usually implementations) in mm.h.

IMHO splitting mm.h is probably the best solution. If I'm not wrong
Paul (CCed) already suggested to move the stuff like PAGE_ALIGN() outside
mm.h the first time I submitted this patch.

In this way we could even include the "lightweight" mm.h (mm_define.h??)
in all the asm-*/page.h, preserving also the backward compatibility.

-Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-25 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25  8:39 PAGE_ALIGN() compile breakage Adrian Bunk
2008-07-25  8:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-25  9:14   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-25  9:25     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-25 18:34       ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2008-07-25  9:27     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-25  9:34       ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-25 12:24         ` __weak vs ifdef Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-25 12:41           ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-26 19:38           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-18  2:07             ` Grant Likely
2010-02-18  2:22               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-26 21:22         ` [-mm patch] mm/util.c must #include <linux/sched.h> Adrian Bunk

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