While not an issue now, eventually we will have independent users of
the extable.h file and we will stop sourcing it via module.h header.
In testing that pending work, with very sparse builds, characteristic
of an "allnoconfig" on various architectures, we can sometimes hit an
instance where the very basic standard definitions aren't present,
resulting in:
include/linux/extable.h:26:9: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
To be clear, this isn't a regression, since currently extable.h is
only used by module.h -- however, we will need this addition present
before we start migrating exception table users off module.h and onto
extable.h during the next release cycle.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
For historical reasons (i.e. pre-git) the exception table stuff was
buried in the middle of the module.h file. I noticed this while
doing an audit for needless includes of module.h and found core
kernel files (both arch specific and arch independent) were just
including module.h for this.
The converse is also true, in that conventional drivers, be they
for filesystems or actual hardware peripherals or similar, do not
normally care about the exception tables.
Here we fork the exception table content out of module.h into a
new file called extable.h -- and temporarily include it into the
module.h itself.
Then we will work our way across the arch independent and arch
specific files needing just exception table content, and move
them off module.h and onto extable.h
Once that is done, we can remove the extable.h from module.h
and in doing it like this, we avoid introducing build failures
into the git history.
The gain here is that module.h gets a bit smaller, across all
modular drivers that we build for allmodconfig. Also the core
files that only need exception table stuff don't have an include
of module.h that brings in lots of extra stuff and just looks
generally out of place.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Thomas Meyer
Paul Gortmaker