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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, bp@alien8.de,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, jpoimboe@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Remove unused COMPILE_OFFSETS macro from asm-offsets.c
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:06:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4T4msSXCNnfPCMG@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b98429d8-6d18-cf0b-6ca0-d9d6472d21f9@redhat.com>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/28/22 18:45, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > > > If you are sure <asm/ftrace.h> is never included from asm-offsets.c,
> > > > remove #ifndef COMPILE_OFFSETS too.
> > > It is never included from asm-offsets.c but it is still used by
> > > kvm-asm-offsets.c:
> > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1-rc7/source/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-asm-offsets.c#L7
> > IIRC, the reason for adding that was because that logic was screwing up
> > asm-offsets.c. I'm not sure it screws up kvm-asm-offsets.c though.
> > 
> > This is one of those cases I wish I commented that code better :-/
> 
> I don't think KVM includes linux/ftrace.h or asm/ftrace.h at all.

From include/linux/kvm_host.h

  #include <linux/ftrace.h>

Even if that didn't exist, saying that XYZ never includes a header is a dangerous
business, it's all too easy to indirectly include headers in the kernel, now or
in the future.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-28 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-27  6:23 [PATCH] x86/asm: Remove unused COMPILE_OFFSETS macro from asm-offsets.c Vincent Mailhol
2022-11-28  9:15 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-11-28 10:11   ` Vincent Mailhol
2022-11-28 11:11     ` kirill.shutemov
2022-11-28 11:30       ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-11-28 17:45         ` Steven Rostedt
2022-11-28 18:00           ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-28 18:06             ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-11-28 19:10               ` Steven Rostedt
2022-11-29 10:14                 ` Vincent MAILHOL

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