On 06.06.2025 12:30, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
> On Fri Jun 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM CEST, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 06.06.2025 12:02, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
>>> On Fri Jun 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM CEST, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 05.06.2025 21:47, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
>>>>> --- a/xen/common/grant_table.c
>>>>> +++ b/xen/common/grant_table.c
>>>>> @@ -42,8 +42,10 @@
>>>>>  #include <xen/xvmalloc.h>
>>>>>  #include <xen/nospec.h>
>>>>>  #include <xsm/xsm.h>
>>>>> +
>>>>>  #include <asm/flushtlb.h>
>>>>>  #include <asm/guest_atomics.h>
>>>>> +#include <asm/grant_table.h>
>>>>>  
>>>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_PV_SHIM
>>>>>  #include <asm/guest.h>
>>>>> --- a/xen/include/xen/grant_table.h
>>>>> +++ b/xen/include/xen/grant_table.h
>>>>> @@ -27,10 +27,6 @@
>>>>>  #include <xen/rwlock.h>
>>>>>  #include <public/grant_table.h>
>>>>>  
>>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_GRANT_TABLE
>>>>> -#include <asm/grant_table.h>
>>>>> -#endif
>>>>> -
>>>>>  struct grant_table;
>>>>>  
>>>>>  /* Seed a gnttab entry for Hyperlaunch/dom0less. */
>>>>
>>>> The description doesn't make clear why these two files need changing.
>>>
>>> What sort of description? I removed a conditional include  and added it to 
>>> one
>>> of the few places it didn't include it already along with xen/grant_table.h.
>>>
>>> The title does say the patch removes the crossed includes in 
>>> asm/grant_table.h
>>> and xen/grant_table.h.
>>>
>>> It's, I hope, self-explanatory regular spring cleanup.
>>
>> Then I'm sorry, to me it isn't. "Break links" has an entirely different (file
>> system) meaning to me, in the common case. Plus that says what is being done,
>> but not why. And it's the "why" that I'm seeking clarification on. From your
>> response to my remarks on v1 I was concluding that the issue is that in a few
>> places asm/grant_table.h would need including additionally. I didn't expect
>> any #include to (need to) go away.
> 
> Let me take a step back then. How about this commit message for this same 
> patch?
> 
>   xen/gnttab: Remove cyclic includes in xen/grant_table.h and arm's 
> asm/grant_table.h
> 
>   The way they currently include each other, with one of the includes being 
> conditional
>   on CONFIG_GRANT_TABLE, makes it hard to know which contents are included 
> when.
> 
>   Seeing how nothing in either header depends on the other, let the include 
> sites
>   include both if both are needed.
> 
>   Signed-off-by: Alejandro Vallejo <agarc...@amd.com>

While definitely better as a description, I still don't see the point of 
removing
the conditional #include from xen/grant_table.h.

Jan

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