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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:43:39 +0530
From: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@...il.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc: Shyam Saini <shyam.saini@...rulasolutions.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] include: linux: Regularise the use of FIELD_SIZEOF macro
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:13 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 2:15 AM Shyam Saini
> <shyam.saini@...rulasolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, there are 3 different macros, namely sizeof_field, SIZEOF_FIELD
> > and FIELD_SIZEOF which are used to calculate the size of a member of
> > structure, so to bring uniformity in entire kernel source tree lets use
> > FIELD_SIZEOF and replace all occurrences of other two macros with this.
> >
> > For this purpose, redefine FIELD_SIZEOF in include/linux/stddef.h and
> > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_util.h and remove its defination from
> > include/linux/kernel.h
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <shyam.saini@...rulasolutions.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 10 +++++-----
> > arch/mips/cavium-octeon/executive/cvmx-bootmem.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_fid.c | 4 ++--
> > fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 2 +-
> > fs/ext2/super.c | 2 +-
> > fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
> > fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c | 2 +-
> > fs/orangefs/super.c | 2 +-
> > fs/ufs/super.c | 2 +-
> > include/linux/kernel.h | 9 ---------
> > include/linux/slab.h | 2 +-
> > include/linux/stddef.h | 11 ++++++++++-
> > kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
> > kernel/utsname.c | 2 +-
> > net/caif/caif_socket.c | 2 +-
> > net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +-
> > net/ipv4/raw.c | 2 +-
> > net/ipv6/raw.c | 2 +-
> > net/sctp/socket.c | 4 ++--
> > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_util.h | 11 ++++++++++-
>
> tools/ directory is for user space pieces that don't include kernel's include.
> I bet your pathes break the user space builds.
I think it shouldn't because I haven't included any kernel header in
tool/ files, instead
I have introduced definition of macro in tool/ , so this patch doesn't
create any dependency
on kernel headers.
Thanks a lot,
Shyam
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