[PATCH v5 03/24] KVM: arm64: Include KVM headers to get forward declarations

Colton Lewis coltonlewis at google.com
Tue Dec 9 12:51:00 PST 2025


From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>

Include include/uapi/linux/kvm.h and include/linux/kvm_types.h in ARM's
public arm_arch_timer.h and arm_pmu.h headers to get forward declarations
of things like "struct kvm_vcpu" and "struct kvm_device_attr", which are
referenced but never declared (neither file includes *any* KVM headers).

The missing includes don't currently cause problems because of the order
of includes in parent files, but that order is largely arbitrary and is
subject to change, e.g. a future commit will move the ARM specific headers
to arch/arm64/include/asm and reorder parent includes to maintain
alphabetic ordering.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
Message-ID: <20250611001042.170501-3-seanjc at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
---
 include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h | 2 ++
 include/kvm/arm_pmu.h        | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
index 7310841f45121..d55359e67c22c 100644
--- a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
+++ b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_ARM_KVM_ARCH_TIMER_H
 #define __ASM_ARM_KVM_ARCH_TIMER_H
 
+#include <linux/kvm.h>
+#include <linux/kvm_types.h>
 #include <linux/clocksource.h>
 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
 
diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_pmu.h b/include/kvm/arm_pmu.h
index 96754b51b4116..baf028d19dfc9 100644
--- a/include/kvm/arm_pmu.h
+++ b/include/kvm/arm_pmu.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_ARM_KVM_PMU_H
 #define __ASM_ARM_KVM_PMU_H
 
+#include <linux/kvm.h>
+#include <linux/kvm_types.h>
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include <linux/perf/arm_pmuv3.h>
 
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