On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 8:54 AM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/20/24 6:24 AM, Dmitrii Bundin wrote:
> > Inclusion of the header linux/btf_ids.h relies on indirect inclusion of
> > the header linux/types.h. Including it directly on the top level helps
> > to avoid potential problems if linux/types.h hasn't been included
> > before.
> >
> > The main motiviation to introduce this it is to avoid similar problems that
>
> nit: spelling
>
> > was shown up in the bpf tool where GNU libc indirectly pulls
> > linux/types.h causing compile error of the form:
> >
> > error: unknown type name 'u32'
> > u32 cnt;
> > ^~~
> >
> > The bpf tool compile error was fixed at 62248b22d01e96a4d669cde0d7005bd51ebf9e76
> >
> > Fixes: 9707ac4fe2f5 ("tools/resolve_btfids: Refactor set sorting with types from btf_ids.h")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Bundin <dmitrii.bundin.a@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2: Add bpf-next to the subject
> > Changes in v3: Add Fixes tag and bpf tool commit reference
> >
> > include/linux/btf_ids.h | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/btf_ids.h b/include/linux/btf_ids.h
> > index e24aabfe8ecc..c0e3e1426a82 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/btf_ids.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/btf_ids.h
> > @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
> > #ifndef _LINUX_BTF_IDS_H
> > #define _LINUX_BTF_IDS_H
> >
> > +#include <linux/types.h> /* for u32 */
> > +
> > struct btf_id_set {
> > u32 cnt;
> > u32 ids[];
> >
>
> Lgtm, not sure if its worth it but also doesn't hurt and aligns the header
> from tooling a bit closer to the kernel one. Just to clarify, this does not
> fix a concrete issue today, so small 'cleanup' rather than 'fix'.
>
Adjusted commit message and pushed to bpf-next, thanks.
> Thanks,
> Daniel
