[PATCH v7 0/9] Add a stricter headers check

[David Marchand]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 at 08:45, David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> As explained in patch 8, the current headers check can not catch
> issues when a public header includes an internal header.
>
> Patch 1-5 fixes have not been marked as backport material as those bugs
> seems minor/easy to fix externally (by either including missing headers,
> or enabling enable_driver_sdk option).
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
>
> Changes since v6:
> - a rabbit told me I should fix driver headers include path:
>   https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/pull/2#discussion_r2390690589,
>
> Changes since v5:
> - added headers staging cleanup,
>
> Changes since v4:
> - reworked headers install,
> - fixed issue in ARM memcpy header,
> - further simplified the header check modifications,
>
> Changes since v3:
> - narrowed down the changes under a check on check_includes= option,
> - moved the staging directories under buildtools/chkincs,
>
> Changes since v2:
> - major rework, dropping the makefile approach, and instead copying
>   headers to a staging directory used by the check,
> - rebased,
> - dropped changes on raw cnxk drivers and disabled the associated
>   build warning in the headers check,
>
> David Marchand (9):
>   baseband/acc: fix exported header
>   drivers: drop export of driver headers
>   eventdev: do not include driver header in DMA adapter
>   gpudev: fix driver header for Windows
>   drivers: fix some exported headers
>   eal/arm: fix C++ build for 32-bit memcpy
>   build: factorize headers installation
>   buildtools/chkincs: use a staging directory for headers
>   power: separate public and driver headers
>
>  buildtools/chkincs/meson.build                | 68 +++++++++++++++----
>  .../chkincs/staging/drivers/meson.build       | 13 ++++
>  buildtools/chkincs/staging/meson.build        | 43 ++++++++++++
>  buildtools/chkincs/staging/stage-headers.py   | 50 ++++++++++++++
>  config/meson.build                            |  3 +-
>  devtools/checkpatches.sh                      |  8 +++
>  drivers/baseband/acc/meson.build              |  2 +-
>  drivers/bus/vmbus/rte_vmbus_reg.h             |  6 ++
>  drivers/crypto/cnxk/rte_pmd_cnxk_crypto.h     |  2 +
>  drivers/meson.build                           |  7 +-
>  drivers/net/dpaa/rte_pmd_dpaa.h               |  2 +
>  drivers/net/intel/iavf/rte_pmd_iavf.h         |  6 ++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/rte_pmd_mlx5.h               |  3 +
>  drivers/net/txgbe/meson.build                 |  2 +-
>  drivers/raw/dpaa2_cmdif/rte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.h |  2 +
>  drivers/raw/ntb/rte_pmd_ntb.h                 |  2 +
>  lib/bbdev/meson.build                         | 14 ++--
>  lib/eal/arm/include/meson.build               |  3 +-
>  lib/eal/arm/include/rte_memcpy_32.h           |  6 +-
>  lib/eal/include/meson.build                   |  3 +-
>  lib/eal/loongarch/include/meson.build         |  3 +-
>  lib/eal/ppc/include/meson.build               |  3 +-
>  lib/eal/riscv/include/meson.build             |  3 +-
>  lib/eal/x86/include/meson.build               |  6 +-
>  lib/ethdev/meson.build                        |  6 +-
>  lib/eventdev/rte_event_dma_adapter.h          |  2 +-
>  lib/gpudev/gpudev.c                           |  1 +
>  lib/gpudev/gpudev_driver.h                    |  4 +-
>  lib/meson.build                               | 10 +--
>  lib/mldev/meson.build                         |  5 +-
>  lib/power/meson.build                         |  7 +-
>  lib/power/power_cpufreq.h                     | 14 +---
>  lib/power/power_uncore_ops.h                  |  1 +
>  lib/power/rte_power_cpufreq.c                 |  2 +-
>  lib/power/rte_power_cpufreq.h                 | 15 +++-
>  lib/power/rte_power_uncore.c                  |  2 +-
>  lib/power/rte_power_uncore.h                  |  3 +-
>  lib/rawdev/meson.build                        |  3 +-
>  lib/regexdev/meson.build                      |  3 +-
>  lib/security/meson.build                      |  3 +-
>  meson.build                                   | 21 ++++--
>  41 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 buildtools/chkincs/staging/drivers/meson.build
>  create mode 100644 buildtools/chkincs/staging/meson.build
>  create mode 100755 buildtools/chkincs/staging/stage-headers.py

Series applied, thanks for the reviews.


-- 
David Marchand