From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: arm_pmuv3: Uninvert dependency between {asm,perf}/arm_pmuv3.h
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:00:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z6KqDR3S_AWXXLJK@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250204195708.1703531-2-coltonlewis@google.com>
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:57:08PM +0000, Colton Lewis wrote:
> perf/arm_pmuv3.h includes asm/arm_pmuv3.h at the bottom of the
> file. This counterintiutive decision was presumably made so
> asm/arm_pmuv3.h would be included everywhere perf/arm_pmuv3.h was even
> though the actual dependency relationship goes the other way because
> asm/arm_pmuv3.h depends on the PMEVN_SWITCH macro that was presumably
> put there to avoid duplicating it in the asm files for arm and arm64.
>
> Extract the relevant macro to its own file to avoid this unusual
> structure so it may be included in the asm headers without worrying
> about ordering issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Is the intention of this change to allow asm/arm_pmuv3.h to be directly
included? If yes, what's the issue with using perf/arm_pmuv3.h?
We already use definitions from the non-arch header in KVM anyway...
--
Thanks,
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-05 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-04 19:57 [PATCH 1/2] perf: arm_pmuv3: Remove cyclical dependency with kvm_host.h Colton Lewis
2025-02-04 19:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: arm_pmuv3: Uninvert dependency between {asm,perf}/arm_pmuv3.h Colton Lewis
2025-02-05 0:00 ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2025-02-05 18:57 ` Colton Lewis
2025-02-04 23:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: arm_pmuv3: Remove cyclical dependency with kvm_host.h Oliver Upton
2025-02-05 18:49 ` Colton Lewis
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