From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cdall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:34:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v4 03/19] arm64: asm-offsets: Remove potential circular dependency In-Reply-To: <20180104184334.16571-4-marc.zyngier@arm.com> References: <20180104184334.16571-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <20180104184334.16571-4-marc.zyngier@arm.com> Message-ID: <20180115083449.GD21403@cbox> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 06:43:18PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > So far, we've been lucky enough that none of the include files > that asm-offsets.c requires include asm-offsets.h. This is > about to change, and would introduce a nasty circular dependency... > > Let's now guard the inclusion of asm-offsets.h so that it never > gets pulled from asm-offsets.c. The same issue exists between > bounce.c and include/generated/bounds.h, and is worked around > by using the existing guard symbol. > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-offsets.h | 2 ++ > arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 ++ > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-offsets.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-offsets.h > index d370ee36a182..7d6531a81eb3 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-offsets.h > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-offsets.h > @@ -1 +1,3 @@ > +#if !defined(__GENERATING_ASM_OFFSETS_H) && !defined(__GENERATING_BOUNDS_H) I don't understand why we need to check __GENERATING_BOUNDS_H here? What is the interaction between asm-offsets and bounds? Thanks, -Christoffer