Re: [PATCH 46/50] preempt.h: Kill dependency on list.h

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Sat Dec 16 2023 - 17:35:39 EST


On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 06:13:41AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:35:47PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > - INIT_HLIST_NODE(&notifier->link);
> > + /* INIT_HLIST_NODE() open coded, to avoid dependency on list.h */
> > + notifier->link.next = NULL;
> > + notifier->link.pprev = NULL;
>
> Arguably INIT_HLIST_NODE() belongs in types.h -- we already have
> RCUREF_INIT() and ATOMIC_INIT() in there.

I think I'd prefer to keep types.h as minimal as possible - as soon as
we start putting non type stuff in there people won't know what the
distinction is and it'll grow.

preempt.h is a bit unusual too, normally we'd just split out a _types.h
header there but it's not so easy to split up usefully.