[PATCH v6 05/90] x86/cpu: <asm/processor.h>: Do not include the CPUID API header

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:15:19 +0100
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.x86-cpuid,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
<asm/processor.h> includes <asm/cpuid/api.h> but it does not need it.

Remove the include.

This allows the CPUID APIs header to include <asm/processor.h> at a later
step without introducing a circular dependency.

Note, all call sites which implicitly included the CPUID API through
<asm/processor.h> have been modified to explicitly include the CPUID APIs
instead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index a24c7805acdb..bea05fea5729 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ struct vm86;
 #include <uapi/asm/sigcontext.h>
 #include <asm/current.h>
 #include <asm/cpufeatures.h>
-#include <asm/cpuid/api.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
 #include <asm/percpu.h>
-- 
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