[PATCH] Add missing include of linux/ftrace.h
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Oct 1 13:16:16 EDT 2011
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 06:12:02PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 05:35:11PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 04:13:22PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > > __exception_irq_entry uses __irq_entry which is defined in
> > > linux/ftrace.h.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Zoltan Devai <zdevai at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>
> >
> > This introduces a circular dependency:
> >
> > linux/ftrace.h -> linux/kallsyms.h -> linux/kernel.h -> linux/bitops.h
> > -> asm/bitops.h -> asm/system.h -> linux/ftrace.h
> >
> > This is not good as it means that we end up with indeterminant effects
> > happening depending on where in that cycle the first include happens.
>
> Crap. I don't think having users of __exception_irq_entry include
> linux/ftrace.h is great, so how about this instead?
This looks much better - and won't involve any circular dependencies.
It might be worth adding a comment in the new header file that this
should only be used on functions called from the low level entry code
and not from intervening C code.
Finally, could you stick it in the patch system please?
Thanks.
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