From: Yuto Ohnuki <ytohnuki@amazon.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, Yuto Ohnuki <ytohnuki@amazon.com>,
"kernel test robot" <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:18:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260226201857.27310-2-ytohnuki@amazon.com> (raw)
Remove the following unnecessary forward declarations from fs.h, which
improves maintainability.
- struct hd_geometry: became unused in fs.h when
block_device_operations was moved to blkdev.h in commit 08f858512151
("[PATCH] move block_device_operations to blkdev.h"). The forward
declaration is now added to blkdev.h where it is actually used.
- struct iovec: became unused when aio_read/aio_write were removed in
commit 8436318205b9 ("->aio_read and ->aio_write removed")
- struct iov_iter: duplicate forward declaration. This removes the
redundant second declaration, added in commit 293bc9822fa9
("new methods: ->read_iter() and ->write_iter()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512301303.s7YWTZHA-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302139.Wl0soAlz-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302105.pmzYfmcV-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302125.FNgHwu5z-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302108.nIV8r5ES-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki <ytohnuki@amazon.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add forward declaration of struct hd_geometry to blkdev.h to fix
build errors reported by kernel test robot.
- Verified with allmodconfig build and all configs reported by
kernel test robot.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251229071401.98146-1-ytohnuki@amazon.com/
---
include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 +
include/linux/fs.h | 3 ---
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index d463b9b5a0a5..0b5942e08754 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct blk_flush_queue;
struct kiocb;
struct pr_ops;
struct rq_qos;
+struct hd_geometry;
struct blk_report_zones_args;
struct blk_queue_stats;
struct blk_stat_callback;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 8b3dd145b25e..75c97faf8799 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ struct bdi_writeback;
struct bio;
struct io_comp_batch;
struct fiemap_extent_info;
-struct hd_geometry;
-struct iovec;
struct kiocb;
struct kobject;
struct pipe_inode_info;
@@ -1917,7 +1915,6 @@ struct dir_context {
*/
#define COPY_FILE_SPLICE (1 << 0)
-struct iov_iter;
struct io_uring_cmd;
struct offset_ctx;
--
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next reply other threads:[~2026-02-26 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-26 20:18 Yuto Ohnuki [this message]
2026-02-27 15:41 ` [PATCH v2] fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations Jan Kara
2026-03-20 10:13 ` Yuto Ohnuki
2026-03-20 13:18 ` Christian Brauner
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