From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -next] Fix printk_once build errors due to __read_mostly Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:46:50 -0700 Message-ID: <1383140810.12439.69.camel@joe-AO722> References: <1383128301-20231-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtprelay0098.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.98]:54843 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751611Ab3J3Nqy (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:46:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1383128301-20231-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: James Hogan Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-metag@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 10:18 +0000, James Hogan wrote: > Commit 3e39c1ab04ba (printk: mark printk_once test variable > __read_mostly) added __read_mostly to the __print_once bool in the > printk_once() macro, but __read_mostly is defined in > which isn't included from . This results in build errors > like this: > > arch/metag/mm/l2cache.c: In function 'meta_l2c_setup': > arch/metag/mm/l2cache.c:56: error: '__read_mostly' undeclared > > This is fixed by adding an include of from > since I don't think printk_once() users should need to > include for it to work. > > Note that this actually adds a recursive include, since > includes , which includes . The actual > dependencies are all in macros so it doesn't actually seem to result in > any build failures, but it's clearly less than ideal. Thanks James. Oh well. Pity about the recursive #include. It seems most every actual use of __read_mostly gets that cache.h include indirectly. Perhaps it's better just to remove the __read_mostly patch as the __read_mostly value is pretty low. Andrew, could you please remove my __read_mostly patch? I preferred that printk.h not be a file that could be independently used via #include. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/331 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/333 and that only kernel.h should be used. Maybe that's still a better approach.