Re: [PATCH 0000/2297] [ANNOUNCE, RFC] "Fast Kernel Headers" Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux kernel's "Dependency Hell"

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Jan 14 2022 - 19:42:15 EST


On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 10:57:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> I'm pleased to announce the first public version of my new "Fast Kernel
> Headers" project that I've been working on since late 2020, which is a
> comprehensive rework of the Linux kernel's header hierarchy & header
> dependencies, with the dual goals of:
>
> - speeding up the kernel build (both absolute and incremental build times)
>
> - decoupling subsystem type & API definitions from each other

Yow!!! ;-)

[ . . . ]

> headers/uninline: Uninline multi-use function: finish_rcuwait()

This one looks fine on its own merits, so I grabbed it from your git tree:

ecdadb5289d1 ("headers/uninline: Uninline multi-use function: finish_rcuwait()")

> headers/deps: RCU: Remove __read_mostly annotations from externs

And same with this one:

1c8af2245fd7 ("headers/deps: RCU: Remove __read_mostly annotations from externs")


Of course, if you would rather keep these, please let me know and I will
drop them.

Thanx, Paul