Re: [PATCH] ACPI: acenv: Permit compilation from within the kernel

[Dave Jiang]

On 11/20/23 08:46, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 7:09 PM Sam Edwards <cfsworks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/13/23 16:08, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> After commit a103f46633fd the kernel stopped compiling for
>>> several ARM32 platforms that I am building with a bare metal
>>> compiler. Bare metal compilers (arm-none-eabi-) don't
>>> define __linux__.
>>
>> Hi Linus,
>>
>> I saw the same baremetal-compiler error here on the ARM64 side of the
>> fence, and narrowed the problem to the same commit as you.
>>
>>>
>>> This is because the header <acpi/platform/acenv.h> is now
>>> in the include path for <linux/irq.h>:
>>
>> More generally, I think it's because of this addition to linux/acpi.h:
>> +#include <linux/fw_table.h>
>>
>> linux/acpi.h is supposed to ensure _LINUX is defined (if it isn't
>> already done by a non-baremetal compiler) before we start pulling in
>> ACPICA includes, so that ACPICA knows the platform. But because
>> fw_table.h contains:
>> #include <linux/acpi.h>
>> #include <acpi/acpi.h>
>>
>> ...the circular include does nothing (linux/acpi.h's include guard stops
>> the include before _LINUX is defined) and we end up pulling in
>> acpi/acpi.h before we're ready.

Not including either causes compile errors for me. And directly including acpi/acpi.h w/o linux/acpi.h causes triggering the #error and some other stuff:

./include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h:18:2: error: #error "Please don't include <acpi/acpi.h> directly, include <linux/acpi.h> instead."
   18 | #error "Please don't include <acpi/acpi.h> directly, include <linux/acpi.h> instead."
      |  ^~~~~


Only including linux/acpi.h:
In file included from ./include/linux/acpi.h:18,
                 from init/main.c:30:
./include/linux/fw_table.h:32:37: error: field ‘common’ has incomplete type
   32 |         struct acpi_subtable_header common;
      |                                     ^~~~~~
./include/linux/fw_table.h:33:36: error: field ‘hmat’ has incomplete type
   33 |         struct acpi_hmat_structure hmat;
      |                                    ^~~~
./include/linux/fw_table.h:34:40: error: field ‘prmt’ has incomplete type
   34 |         struct acpi_prmt_module_header prmt;
      |                                        ^~~~
./include/linux/fw_table.h:35:33: error: field ‘cedt’ has incomplete type
   35 |         struct acpi_cedt_header cedt;
      |                                 ^~~~


> 
> Yes, that's the problem AFAICS.  Dave?
> 
> What about moving the fw_table.h include in linux/acpi.h below the
> mutex.h one, along with the EXPORT_SYMBOL_ACPI_LIB-related
> definitions?

This builds cleanly for me.

> 
> BTW, I'm not really sure why fw_table.h needs to include both
> linux/acpi.h and acpi/acpi.h, because it should get the latter through
> the former anyway.
> 
>>>
>>>    CC      arch/arm/kernel/irq.o
>>>    CC      kernel/sysctl.o
>>>    CC      crypto/api.o
>>> In file included from ../include/acpi/acpi.h:22,
>>>                   from ../include/linux/fw_table.h:29,
>>>                   from ../include/linux/acpi.h:18,
>>>                   from ../include/linux/irqchip.h:14,
>>>                   from ../arch/arm/kernel/irq.c:25:
>>> ../include/acpi/platform/acenv.h:218:2: error: #error Unknown target environment
>>>    218 | #error Unknown target environment
>>>        |  ^~~~~
>>>
>>> One solution to make compilation with a bare metal compiler
>>> work again is to say the file is used with Linux from within
>>> the kernel if __KERNEL__ is defined so I did that.
>>
>> I am not an ACPI subsystem maintainer, but my understanding is that the
>> files in include/acpi/ are copied verbatim from ACPICA, so any change to
>> those files will have to be sent to the ACPICA project and wouldn't be
>> accepted here.
> 
> There are exceptions, but generally you are right.
> 
>> More likely, we'd want to do something about the circular-include
>> situation between linux/fw_table.h<->linux/acpi.h. That may have further
>> consequences down the road than just our problem here. Perhaps just
>> dropping both #includes from fw_table.h, and lowering the fw_table.h
>> include from within linux/acpi.h to be below <acpi/acpi.h>, is the way
>> to go?
> 
> Something like that.