From: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:25:04 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: kernel.h: drop STACK_MAGIC macro
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kernel.h: drop STACK_MAGIC macro

Patch series "Unload linux/kernel.h", v5.

kernel.h hosts declarations that can be placed better.  This series
decouples kernel.h with some explicit and implicit dependencies; also,
moves tracing functionality to a new independent header.


This patch (of 6):

The macro was introduced in 1994, v1.0.4, for stacks protection.  Since
that, people found better ways to protect stacks, and now the macro is
only used by i915 selftests.  Move it to a local header and drop from the
kernel.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116042510.241009-1-ynorov@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116042510.241009-2-ynorov@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_ring_submission.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_ring_submission.c
index 87ceb0f374b67..600333ae6c8c1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_ring_submission.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_ring_submission.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  * Copyright © 2020 Intel Corporation
  */
 
+#include "i915_selftest.h"
 #include "intel_engine_pm.h"
 #include "selftests/igt_flush_test.h"
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_selftest.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_selftest.h
index bdf3e22c0a34d..72922028f4ba1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_selftest.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_selftest.h
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
+#define STACK_MAGIC	0xdeadbeef
+
 struct pci_dev;
 struct drm_i915_private;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 35b8f2a5aca51..cefe733a0c10e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@
 
 #include <uapi/linux/kernel.h>
 
-#define STACK_MAGIC	0xdeadbeef
-
 struct completion;
 struct user;