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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Maze of include files, all producing errors...
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:48:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020228204826.C13564@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)

In 2.5.5 (Changeset 1.359.2.3), the highmem.h and pgalloc.h includes were
reversed.

Previous kernels had linux/highmem.h including asm/pgalloc.h.  Placing
the architecture cache handling functions worked well in asm/pgalloc.h,
allowing highmem.h to find them; highmem.h uses flush_dcache_page() and
friends in inline functions.

In this changeset, highmem.h no longer includes pgalloc.h, but instead
pgalloc.h includes highmem.h.  This, unfortunately, tends to break things
in a major way since the cache functions are no longer available to
highmem.h.

Looking at x86, the (no-op) cache functions live in pgtable.h.  However,
trying to put the ARM cache handling into pgtable.h doesn't work because
we need things like PG_arch_1 and struct page.  pgtable.h is included by
linux/mm.h before linux/mm.h declares PG_arch_1 and struct page.  So
obviously this can't work.

Has anyone encountered this, and has anyone found a magic working
combination?

For now, I'm going to reverse the include changes in this changeset so
things build again.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-28 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-28 20:48 Russell King [this message]
2002-03-01  0:52 ` Maze of include files, all producing errors Richard Henderson
2002-03-03 22:28 ` Daniel Phillips

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