Re: [v3 PATCH 2/2] printk: Make linux/printk.h self-contained

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 05:32:09 EST


On Wed 2020-06-17 17:17:21, Herbert Xu wrote:
> As it stands if you include printk.h by itself it will fail to
> compile because it requires definitions from ratelimit.h. However,
> simply including ratelimit.h from printk.h does not work due to
> inclusion loops involving sched.h and kernel.h.
>
> This patch solves this by moving bits from ratelimit.h into a new
> header file which can then be included by printk.h without any
> worries about header loops.
>
> The build bot then revealed some intriguing failures arising out
> of this patch. On s390 there is an inclusion loop with asm/bug.h
> and linux/kernel.h that triggers a compile failure, because kernel.h
> will cause asm-generic/bug.h to be included before s390's own
> asm/bug.h has finished processing. This has been fixed by not
> including kernel.h in arch/s390/include/asm/bug.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

JFYI, the patch has been committed into printk/linux.git,
branch for-5.9.

Best Regards,
Petr