Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] headers: fix circular dependency betweenlinux/sched.h and linux/wait.h

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Feb 21 2011 - 13:59:49 EST


On 02/21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> afaict its needed because struct signal_struct and struct sighand_struct
> include a wait_queue_head_t. The inclusion seems to come through
> completion.h, but afaict we don't actually need to include completion.h
> because all we have is a pointer to a completion, which is perfectly
> fine with an incomplete type.
>
> This all would suggest we move the signal bits into their own header
> (include/linux/signal.h already exists and seems inviting).

Agreed, sched.h contatins a lot of garbage, including the signal bits.

As for signal_struct in particular I am not really sure, it is just
misnamed. It is in fact "struct process" or "struct thread_group". But
dequeue_signal/etc should go into signal.h.

The only problem, it is not clear how to test such a change.

Oleg.

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