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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:00:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006050022.GA2186@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223263964.5872.20.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>


* Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> 
> asm/atomic.h contains both declaration and implementation of atomic_t.  So
> there are some implementation related files included in asm/atomic.h.  And
> atomic_t is a typedef.  Combination of above makes it impossible to use
> atomic_t in files included by atomic.h.  Such as atomic_t can not be used
> in linux/kernel.h on i386, because it is included by asm/atomic.h.
> 
> It is reasonable to separate declaration from implementation.  So a new
> file atomic_def.h is added for every architecture to accommodate the
> declaration of atomic_t.
> 
> Includes fixes from Andrew Moton.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/asm-x86/atomic_32.h             |   10 +---------
>  include/asm-x86/atomic_64.h             |   10 +---------
>  include/asm-x86/atomic_def.h            |   13 +++++++++++++

nice cleanup!

One small request: could you please use the standard naming convention 
please and rename it to atomic_types.h?

That moves it in line with existing data type files: kvm_types.h, 
mm_types.h, posix_types.h, spinlock_types.h, amd_iommu_types.h, 
kmap_types.h, etc.

Easiest is to do it via:

 sed -i 's/atomic_def.h/atomic_types.h/g' patches/separate-atomic.patch

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-06  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06  3:32 [PATCH -mm -v3] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h Huang Ying
2008-10-06  5:00 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-06  8:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-07  1:09   ` Huang Ying

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