Re: [PATCH] ia64: including <asm/signal.h> alone causes compilation errors

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 12:24:38 EST


On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:15:14PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>
> Including *just* <asm/signal.h> on ia64 will result in a compilation failure,
> where it will succeed on every other architecture.
>
> Every other arch includes <linux/compiler.h> either directly or via
> <linux/types.h> at the top of <asm-*/signal.h>. ia64 includes
> <linux/types.h> after including <asm-generic/signal.h>, which causes
> the __user in <asm-generic/signal.h> to get passed through untouched, causing
> compilation errors.
>
> This patch moves the #include <linux/types.h> up to the beginning of signal.h,
> as found on every other arch.
>
> A specific example of where this behavior is observed is the recent addition
> of OCFS2. fs/ocfs2/cluster/userdlm.c seems alone in only including
> <asm/signal.h>, which seems to be perfectly valid.

Generally you should only include <asm/signal.h> via <linux/signal.h>, which gets
<linux/compiler.h> via <linux/spinlock.h>

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