From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B26F42A95 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.140.110.172 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1733904855; cv=none; b=X70jtqYmuipdZMsz+f9Ql/HhIreP91F72Vp2ku+zCP37dYunAq+KDD3dQharhqwbPgPTgXn/Ht2oEoB2TgcqxdLVIYMfu4iVQATJ+ePeIFF1mNAz6Nc9oMwB2StGTm8upvgKtwd4NnQFzaV32A6/GXTwHmwSlhg5Sed4VCAyBQQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1733904855; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/JJp5QraSgq6Xjp6Qw5FDlW2f33Y6NlH8eFGS4xJ3/E=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=lA2yYoGxLXsPMhH+KJ2TwOrj+miIrydEH3dfR8K1coXV73JQrVgYunRnzlXQvKCyEB5zEBsTHgQgT68zk36Fmqgc4h8tN/uBdQhzUNYDX8yXL37QLyOfkWKKOLsGpmwoW2RizfbcmtS1poQlChsU2uiTFN/5IeAm2vSLBB4TS/U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=arm.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.140.110.172 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=arm.com Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2311063; Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:14:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.57.70.51] (unknown [10.57.70.51]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16F3C3F720; Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:14:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <490f7554-62eb-48a3-a45d-a65e68794b58@arm.com> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:14:07 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Remove problematic include in To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bp@alien8.de, dan.j.williams@intel.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, david@redhat.com, jane.chu@oracle.com, osalvador@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de References: <20241210184610.2080727-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Content-Language: en-GB From: Kevin Brodsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/12/2024 06:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 06:46:06PM +0000, Kevin Brodsky wrote: >> The need for this series arose from a completely unrelated series [1]. >> Long story short, that series causes to include >> , which doesn't feel too unreasonable. > It is entirely unreasoable. is inclued just about > everywhere and should not grow more fringe includes. Understood, I did wonder about that. Then I suppose the best course of action for the problematic patch in that other series [3] is to move pagetable_{alloc,free} out of linux/mm.h. - Kevin [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20241206101110.1646108-11-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/