From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
jianjay.zhou@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Remove unecessary asm/kvm_host.h includes
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:27:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228182736.GU180973@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200228180503.GH2329@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:05:03AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> s/unecessary/unnecessary
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:55:58AM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> > linux/kvm_host.h and asm/kvm_host.h have a dependency in that the asm
> > header should be included first, then we can define arch-specific
> > macros in asm/ header and use "#ifndef" in linux/ header to define the
> > generic value of the macro. One example is KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID.
> >
> > Now in many C files we've got both the headers included, and
> > linux/kvm_host.h is included even earlier. It's working only because
> > in linux/kvm_host.h we also included asm/kvm_host.h anyway so the
> > explicit inclusion of asm/kvm_host.h in the C files are meaningless.
>
> I'd prefer to word this much more strongly, i.e. there is no "should"
> about it, including asm/kvm_host.h in linux/kvm_host.h is deliberate,
> it's not serendipitous.
>
> ```
> Remove includes of asm/kvm_host.h from files that already include
> linux/kvm_host.h to make it more obvious that there is no ordering issue
> between the two headers. linux/kvm_host.h includes asm/kvm_host.h to
> pick up architecture specific settings, and this will never change, i.e.
> including asm/kvm_host.h after linux/kvm_host.h may seem problematic,
> but in practice is simply redundant.
> ```
>
> As for the change itself, I'm indifferent.
Sure, I'll fix up these and repost. Thanks,
--
Peter Xu
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-26 15:55 [PATCH] KVM: Remove unecessary asm/kvm_host.h includes Peter Xu
2020-02-28 18:05 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-28 18:27 ` Peter Xu [this message]
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