2018-06-12 05:49:47

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: uapi headers userspace build results

Hi,

Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.

I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.

There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
(O=builddir).

Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.

The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
all target files).

have fun!
--
~Randy


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2018-06-12 20:41:09

by Jayant Chowdhary

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Subject: Re: uapi headers userspace build results

Hi Randy,

On 06/11/2018 10:49 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
> template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.
>
> I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.
>
> There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
> (O=builddir).
>

Thanks for this! I wrote a small Makefile (uapi-compile.mk) which I'd put in
tools/build (I can change this to tools/uapi, if that is more apt).

uapi-compile.mk straight-away compiles the uapi headers, without pulling them
into any generated c source files. It may also be invoked with an environment
variable 'UAPI_DIR' specifying the directory, for which the user would like to
compile headers. This way we can test a directory at a time as well. In your
opinion, would this be simpler to have rather than having to auto-generate c
source files including each uapi header and also autog-enerating the make
targets? I feel like this approach would make maintaining these makefiles/
scripts easier as well.

> Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.
>
> The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
> 'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
> all target files).
>
> have fun!
>

I did a 'make ARCH=arm64 headers_install' from the kernel source's root, and
then a 'make -kf uapi-compile.mk all > build.log 2>&1' to compile all the
headers. Out of 864 headers, I see 20 compilation failures.

I'm attaching uapi-compile.mk and the build.log file along.

Thanks,
Jayant


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2018-06-13 00:09:53

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: uapi headers userspace build results

On 06/12/2018 01:39 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On 06/11/2018 10:49 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
>> template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.
>>
>> I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.
>>
>> There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
>> (O=builddir).
>>
>
> Thanks for this! I wrote a small Makefile (uapi-compile.mk) which I'd put in
> tools/build (I can change this to tools/uapi, if that is more apt).

Your makefile foo is much better than mine is.
Yes, I think that it deserves to be in its own sub-directory.

> uapi-compile.mk straight-away compiles the uapi headers, without pulling them
> into any generated c source files. It may also be invoked with an environment

Hm, I didn't even know that is possible.

> variable 'UAPI_DIR' specifying the directory, for which the user would like to
> compile headers. This way we can test a directory at a time as well. In your

Yes, good, I was planning to make a way to restrict the build to certain sub-dirs.

> opinion, would this be simpler to have rather than having to auto-generate c
> source files including each uapi header and also autog-enerating the make
> targets? I feel like this approach would make maintaining these makefiles/
> scripts easier as well.

Sure, this is much better than my scripts.

>> Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.
>>
>> The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
>> 'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
>> all target files).
>>
>> have fun!
>>
>
> I did a 'make ARCH=arm64 headers_install' from the kernel source's root, and
> then a 'make -kf uapi-compile.mk all > build.log 2>&1' to compile all the
> headers. Out of 864 headers, I see 20 compilation failures.
>
> I'm attaching uapi-compile.mk and the build.log file along.

I have some usage comments.

Since I ran 'make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 headers_install', I had to modify
uapi-compile.mk to use that SRC_DIR:

SRC_DIR :=../../xx64

Also, I first tried to make BDIR as a sub-directory of tools/uapi/ and
uapi-compile.mk did not work (when using BDIR=BDIR).
Then I did 'mkdir ../../xx64/BDIR' and specified BDIR=../../xx64/BDIR and
that worked. But: that sub-dir is not used:

gcc -I../../xx64/usr/include/ --include=../../xx64/usr/include/linux/posix_types.h --include=../../xx64/usr/include/asm-generic/ipcbuf.h --include=stdarg.h --include=stdint.h --include=stddef.h -c ../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.h -o ../../xx64/BDIR/../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.o
[see the next comment]

Oh, this makefile builds the .o files in the same sub-dirs as their
respective .h files. I don't especially like that, but as long as
make clean works, it will do. [and make clean does work]

Thanks.
--
~Randy

2018-06-19 01:48:13

by Jayant Chowdhary

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Subject: Re: uapi headers userspace build results

Hi Randy,

On 06/12/2018 05:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 01:39 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> On 06/11/2018 10:49 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
>>> template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.
>>>
>>> I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.
>>>
>>> There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
>>> (O=builddir).
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for this! I wrote a small Makefile (uapi-compile.mk) which I'd put in
>> tools/build (I can change this to tools/uapi, if that is more apt).
>
> Your makefile foo is much better than mine is.
> Yes, I think that it deserves to be in its own sub-directory.
>
>> uapi-compile.mk straight-away compiles the uapi headers, without pulling them
>> into any generated c source files. It may also be invoked with an environment
>
> Hm, I didn't even know that is possible.
>
>> variable 'UAPI_DIR' specifying the directory, for which the user would like to
>> compile headers. This way we can test a directory at a time as well. In your
>
> Yes, good, I was planning to make a way to restrict the build to certain sub-dirs.
>
>> opinion, would this be simpler to have rather than having to auto-generate c
>> source files including each uapi header and also autog-enerating the make
>> targets? I feel like this approach would make maintaining these makefiles/
>> scripts easier as well.
>
> Sure, this is much better than my scripts.
>
>>> Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.
>>>
>>> The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
>>> 'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
>>> all target files).
>>>
>>> have fun!
>>>
>>
>> I did a 'make ARCH=arm64 headers_install' from the kernel source's root, and
>> then a 'make -kf uapi-compile.mk all > build.log 2>&1' to compile all the
>> headers. Out of 864 headers, I see 20 compilation failures.
>>
>> I'm attaching uapi-compile.mk and the build.log file along.
>
> I have some usage comments.
>
> Since I ran 'make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 headers_install', I had to modify
> uapi-compile.mk to use that SRC_DIR:
>
> SRC_DIR :=../../xx64
>
> Also, I first tried to make BDIR as a sub-directory of tools/uapi/ and
> uapi-compile.mk did not work (when using BDIR=BDIR).
> Then I did 'mkdir ../../xx64/BDIR' and specified BDIR=../../xx64/BDIR and
> that worked. But: that sub-dir is not used:
>
> gcc -I../../xx64/usr/include/ --include=../../xx64/usr/include/linux/posix_types.h --include=../../xx64/usr/include/asm-generic/ipcbuf.h --include=stdarg.h --include=stdint.h --include=stddef.h -c ../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.h -o ../../xx64/BDIR/../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.o
> [see the next comment]
>
> Oh, this makefile builds the .o files in the same sub-dirs as their
> respective .h files. I don't especially like that, but as long as
> make clean works, it will do. [and make clean does work]
>

Thanks for these comments. I'll take care of them in my patch-set. I've got a
couple of questions for you. Since most of the errors were found in the
include/uapi/linux directory, I tried investigating why.

1) I found that multiple headers depend on the definition of types such as
pid_t, which have no definition in the set of uapi headers. There is a
definition (of pid_t) in include/linux/types.h, and I thought we could try
exposing that in the set of uapi headers. One problem I can see with that is
that the header has some definitions which depend on kernel configs: eg:
CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT. Since user-land programs shouldn't really assume
kernel configs, I was thinking we should re-factor this header so that
appropriate parts can be exposed to user-land.

2) Some headers try to expose information which should probably not be exposed
to user-land. eg: wait_queue_head in linux/coda_psdev.h (this header should
probably be removed altogether ?)

Do you have better ideas ?

Thanks,
Jayant

> Thanks.
>

2018-06-19 18:18:16

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: uapi headers userspace build results

On 06/18/2018 06:47 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On 06/12/2018 05:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 06/12/2018 01:39 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>> On 06/11/2018 10:49 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
>>>> template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.
>>>>
>>>> I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.
>>>>
>>>> There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
>>>> (O=builddir).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this! I wrote a small Makefile (uapi-compile.mk) which I'd put in
>>> tools/build (I can change this to tools/uapi, if that is more apt).
>>
>> Your makefile foo is much better than mine is.
>> Yes, I think that it deserves to be in its own sub-directory.
>>
>>> uapi-compile.mk straight-away compiles the uapi headers, without pulling them
>>> into any generated c source files. It may also be invoked with an environment
>>
>> Hm, I didn't even know that is possible.
>>
>>> variable 'UAPI_DIR' specifying the directory, for which the user would like to
>>> compile headers. This way we can test a directory at a time as well. In your
>>
>> Yes, good, I was planning to make a way to restrict the build to certain sub-dirs.
>>
>>> opinion, would this be simpler to have rather than having to auto-generate c
>>> source files including each uapi header and also autog-enerating the make
>>> targets? I feel like this approach would make maintaining these makefiles/
>>> scripts easier as well.
>>
>> Sure, this is much better than my scripts.
>>
>>>> Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.
>>>>
>>>> The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
>>>> 'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
>>>> all target files).
>>>>
>>>> have fun!
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did a 'make ARCH=arm64 headers_install' from the kernel source's root, and
>>> then a 'make -kf uapi-compile.mk all > build.log 2>&1' to compile all the
>>> headers. Out of 864 headers, I see 20 compilation failures.
>>>
>>> I'm attaching uapi-compile.mk and the build.log file along.
>>
>> I have some usage comments.
>>
>> Since I ran 'make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 headers_install', I had to modify
>> uapi-compile.mk to use that SRC_DIR:
>>
>> SRC_DIR :=../../xx64
>>
>> Also, I first tried to make BDIR as a sub-directory of tools/uapi/ and
>> uapi-compile.mk did not work (when using BDIR=BDIR).
>> Then I did 'mkdir ../../xx64/BDIR' and specified BDIR=../../xx64/BDIR and
>> that worked. But: that sub-dir is not used:
>>
>> gcc -I../../xx64/usr/include/ --include=../../xx64/usr/include/linux/posix_types.h --include=../../xx64/usr/include/asm-generic/ipcbuf.h --include=stdarg.h --include=stdint.h --include=stddef.h -c ../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.h -o ../../xx64/BDIR/../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.o
>> [see the next comment]
>>
>> Oh, this makefile builds the .o files in the same sub-dirs as their
>> respective .h files. I don't especially like that, but as long as
>> make clean works, it will do. [and make clean does work]
>>
>
> Thanks for these comments. I'll take care of them in my patch-set. I've got a
> couple of questions for you. Since most of the errors were found in the
> include/uapi/linux directory, I tried investigating why.

Please also repost your latest patch-set.

> 1) I found that multiple headers depend on the definition of types such as
> pid_t, which have no definition in the set of uapi headers. There is a
> definition (of pid_t) in include/linux/types.h, and I thought we could try
> exposing that in the set of uapi headers. One problem I can see with that is
> that the header has some definitions which depend on kernel configs: eg:
> CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT. Since user-land programs shouldn't really assume
> kernel configs, I was thinking we should re-factor this header so that
> appropriate parts can be exposed to user-land.

Sure, that's worth a try. Mostly on a case-by-case basis.

I see that (at least in the distro that I am using)
/usr/include/asm-generic/posix_types.h has a typedef for __kernel_pid_t.
I wonder if that could be co-opted, but I expect that this would have
type/size issues.

OTOH, 'man getpid' uses pid_t and refers to <sys/types.h> and <unistd.h>,
so there should already be a pid_t for userspace. Just #include more
headers files. :)

> 2) Some headers try to expose information which should probably not be exposed
> to user-land. eg: wait_queue_head in linux/coda_psdev.h (this header should
> probably be removed altogether ?)

I suppose that header file describes a kernel-to-userspace ("Venus") interface,
so maybe not removed altogether. But the wait_queue_head_t part of it should
just be some padding/reserved field (of what size/type?).


> Do you have better ideas ?

slow and steady.

--
~Randy

2019-05-27 22:13:48

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: uapi headers userspace build results

Hi Jayant,

What ever happened to this script and subsequent patches?

thanks.

On 6/19/18 11:17 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 06/18/2018 06:47 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> On 06/12/2018 05:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 06/12/2018 01:39 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
>>>> Hi Randy,
>>>>
>>>> On 06/11/2018 10:49 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
>>>>> template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.
>>>>>
>>>>> I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
>>>>> (O=builddir).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for this! I wrote a small Makefile (uapi-compile.mk) which I'd put in
>>>> tools/build (I can change this to tools/uapi, if that is more apt).
>>>
>>> Your makefile foo is much better than mine is.
>>> Yes, I think that it deserves to be in its own sub-directory.
>>>
>>>> uapi-compile.mk straight-away compiles the uapi headers, without pulling them
>>>> into any generated c source files. It may also be invoked with an environment
>>>
>>> Hm, I didn't even know that is possible.
>>>
>>>> variable 'UAPI_DIR' specifying the directory, for which the user would like to
>>>> compile headers. This way we can test a directory at a time as well. In your
>>>
>>> Yes, good, I was planning to make a way to restrict the build to certain sub-dirs.
>>>
>>>> opinion, would this be simpler to have rather than having to auto-generate c
>>>> source files including each uapi header and also autog-enerating the make
>>>> targets? I feel like this approach would make maintaining these makefiles/
>>>> scripts easier as well.
>>>
>>> Sure, this is much better than my scripts.
>>>
>>>>> Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
>>>>> 'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
>>>>> all target files).
>>>>>
>>>>> have fun!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I did a 'make ARCH=arm64 headers_install' from the kernel source's root, and
>>>> then a 'make -kf uapi-compile.mk all > build.log 2>&1' to compile all the
>>>> headers. Out of 864 headers, I see 20 compilation failures.
>>>>
>>>> I'm attaching uapi-compile.mk and the build.log file along.
>>>
>>> I have some usage comments.
>>>
>>> Since I ran 'make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 headers_install', I had to modify
>>> uapi-compile.mk to use that SRC_DIR:
>>>
>>> SRC_DIR :=../../xx64
>>>
>>> Also, I first tried to make BDIR as a sub-directory of tools/uapi/ and
>>> uapi-compile.mk did not work (when using BDIR=BDIR).
>>> Then I did 'mkdir ../../xx64/BDIR' and specified BDIR=../../xx64/BDIR and
>>> that worked. But: that sub-dir is not used:
>>>
>>> gcc -I../../xx64/usr/include/ --include=../../xx64/usr/include/linux/posix_types.h --include=../../xx64/usr/include/asm-generic/ipcbuf.h --include=stdarg.h --include=stdint.h --include=stddef.h -c ../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.h -o ../../xx64/BDIR/../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.o
>>> [see the next comment]
>>>
>>> Oh, this makefile builds the .o files in the same sub-dirs as their
>>> respective .h files. I don't especially like that, but as long as
>>> make clean works, it will do. [and make clean does work]
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for these comments. I'll take care of them in my patch-set. I've got a
>> couple of questions for you. Since most of the errors were found in the
>> include/uapi/linux directory, I tried investigating why.
>
> Please also repost your latest patch-set.
>
>> 1) I found that multiple headers depend on the definition of types such as
>> pid_t, which have no definition in the set of uapi headers. There is a
>> definition (of pid_t) in include/linux/types.h, and I thought we could try
>> exposing that in the set of uapi headers. One problem I can see with that is
>> that the header has some definitions which depend on kernel configs: eg:
>> CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT. Since user-land programs shouldn't really assume
>> kernel configs, I was thinking we should re-factor this header so that
>> appropriate parts can be exposed to user-land.
>
> Sure, that's worth a try. Mostly on a case-by-case basis.
>
> I see that (at least in the distro that I am using)
> /usr/include/asm-generic/posix_types.h has a typedef for __kernel_pid_t.
> I wonder if that could be co-opted, but I expect that this would have
> type/size issues.
>
> OTOH, 'man getpid' uses pid_t and refers to <sys/types.h> and <unistd.h>,
> so there should already be a pid_t for userspace. Just #include more
> headers files. :)
>
>> 2) Some headers try to expose information which should probably not be exposed
>> to user-land. eg: wait_queue_head in linux/coda_psdev.h (this header should
>> probably be removed altogether ?)
>
> I suppose that header file describes a kernel-to-userspace ("Venus") interface,
> so maybe not removed altogether. But the wait_queue_head_t part of it should
> just be some padding/reserved field (of what size/type?).
>
>
>> Do you have better ideas ?
>
> slow and steady.
>


--
~Randy

2019-05-28 17:09:10

by Jayant Chowdhary

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Subject: Re: uapi headers userspace build results

Hi Randy,
Apologies for not keeping everyone up to date on this. A couple of colleagues
(cc'ed): Tri and Matthias, are going to be taking over this work.

Thanks,
Jayant

On 5/27/19 3:12 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi Jayant,
>
> What ever happened to this script and subsequent patches?
>
> thanks.
>
> On 6/19/18 11:17 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 06/18/2018 06:47 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>> On 06/12/2018 05:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> On 06/12/2018 01:39 PM, Jayant Chowdhary wrote:
>>>>> Hi Randy,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/11/2018 10:49 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is what I have so far. It begins with a makefile and some
>>>>>> template files that are added to. There's a good bit of Perl also.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I put all of these files in tools/uapi/ and run them from there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is one .c file generated for each .h file in builddir/usr/include
>>>>>> (O=builddir).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for this! I wrote a small Makefile (uapi-compile.mk) which I'd put in
>>>>> tools/build (I can change this to tools/uapi, if that is more apt).
>>>>
>>>> Your makefile foo is much better than mine is.
>>>> Yes, I think that it deserves to be in its own sub-directory.
>>>>
>>>>> uapi-compile.mk straight-away compiles the uapi headers, without pulling them
>>>>> into any generated c source files. It may also be invoked with an environment
>>>>
>>>> Hm, I didn't even know that is possible.
>>>>
>>>>> variable 'UAPI_DIR' specifying the directory, for which the user would like to
>>>>> compile headers. This way we can test a directory at a time as well. In your
>>>>
>>>> Yes, good, I was planning to make a way to restrict the build to certain sub-dirs.
>>>>
>>>>> opinion, would this be simpler to have rather than having to auto-generate c
>>>>> source files including each uapi header and also autog-enerating the make
>>>>> targets? I feel like this approach would make maintaining these makefiles/
>>>>> scripts easier as well.
>>>>
>>>> Sure, this is much better than my scripts.
>>>>
>>>>>> Out of 889 header files, I see 45 errors. That is better than I expected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The makefiles and scripts are attached (tar), as well as the output (I used
>>>>>> 'make -ik' so that make would keep going after errors and attempt to build
>>>>>> all target files).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> have fun!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I did a 'make ARCH=arm64 headers_install' from the kernel source's root, and
>>>>> then a 'make -kf uapi-compile.mk all > build.log 2>&1' to compile all the
>>>>> headers. Out of 864 headers, I see 20 compilation failures.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm attaching uapi-compile.mk and the build.log file along.
>>>>
>>>> I have some usage comments.
>>>>
>>>> Since I ran 'make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 headers_install', I had to modify
>>>> uapi-compile.mk to use that SRC_DIR:
>>>>
>>>> SRC_DIR :=../../xx64
>>>>
>>>> Also, I first tried to make BDIR as a sub-directory of tools/uapi/ and
>>>> uapi-compile.mk did not work (when using BDIR=BDIR).
>>>> Then I did 'mkdir ../../xx64/BDIR' and specified BDIR=../../xx64/BDIR and
>>>> that worked. But: that sub-dir is not used:
>>>>
>>>> gcc -I../../xx64/usr/include/ --include=../../xx64/usr/include/linux/posix_types.h --include=../../xx64/usr/include/asm-generic/ipcbuf.h --include=stdarg.h --include=stdint.h --include=stddef.h -c ../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.h -o ../../xx64/BDIR/../../xx64/usr/include//linux/caif/caif_socket.o
>>>> [see the next comment]
>>>>
>>>> Oh, this makefile builds the .o files in the same sub-dirs as their
>>>> respective .h files. I don't especially like that, but as long as
>>>> make clean works, it will do. [and make clean does work]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for these comments. I'll take care of them in my patch-set. I've got a
>>> couple of questions for you. Since most of the errors were found in the
>>> include/uapi/linux directory, I tried investigating why.
>>
>> Please also repost your latest patch-set.
>>
>>> 1) I found that multiple headers depend on the definition of types such as
>>> pid_t, which have no definition in the set of uapi headers. There is a
>>> definition (of pid_t) in include/linux/types.h, and I thought we could try
>>> exposing that in the set of uapi headers. One problem I can see with that is
>>> that the header has some definitions which depend on kernel configs: eg:
>>> CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT. Since user-land programs shouldn't really assume
>>> kernel configs, I was thinking we should re-factor this header so that
>>> appropriate parts can be exposed to user-land.
>>
>> Sure, that's worth a try. Mostly on a case-by-case basis.
>>
>> I see that (at least in the distro that I am using)
>> /usr/include/asm-generic/posix_types.h has a typedef for __kernel_pid_t.
>> I wonder if that could be co-opted, but I expect that this would have
>> type/size issues.
>>
>> OTOH, 'man getpid' uses pid_t and refers to <sys/types.h> and <unistd.h>,
>> so there should already be a pid_t for userspace. Just #include more
>> headers files. :)
>>
>>> 2) Some headers try to expose information which should probably not be exposed
>>> to user-land. eg: wait_queue_head in linux/coda_psdev.h (this header should
>>> probably be removed altogether ?)
>>
>> I suppose that header file describes a kernel-to-userspace ("Venus") interface,
>> so maybe not removed altogether. But the wait_queue_head_t part of it should
>> just be some padding/reserved field (of what size/type?).
>>
>>
>>> Do you have better ideas ?
>>
>> slow and steady.
>>
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