On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 04:04:43PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On 12/16/23 14:35, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > 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(¬ifier->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. > > > > I don't feel like I have NAK power, but if I did, I would NAK > open coding of INIT_HLIST_HEAD() or anything like it. > I would expect some $maintainer to do likewise, but I could be > surprised. There is another solution here (although I prefer moving INIT_HLIST_HEAD into types.h). The preprocessor allows redefinitions as long as the two definitions match exactly. So you can copy INIT_HLIST_HEAD into preempt.h and if the definition ever changes, we'll notice.