Re: [Patch x86-tip] Clean up the warning message about RCU not defined

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Sep 25 2009 - 05:41:00 EST


Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (This fix is for commit 4765c1db84c73f775eb1822a009117cbae524e9e
> Titled "rcu-tiny: The Bloatwatch Edition, v6")
>
> When the kernel is built, there is some message printed as
> following:
> include/linux/rcupdate.h:80:7: \
> warning: "CONFIG_TINY_RCU" is not defined
>
> So I did "grep _RCU .config" to search the information of "CONFIG_TINY_RCU"
> in .config file and the result is listed as following:
> Command:
> grep _RCU .config
> Result:
> CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y
> # CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is not set
> # CONFIG_TINY_RCU is not set
> CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y
> CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=64
> # CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT is not set
> CONFIG_TREE_RCU_TRACE=y
> # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set
> # CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR is not set
>
> Though the "WARNING" does not give impact to build kernel, I think
> it should be cleaned up. And I made the patch for modifying it.
> With this patch there is not any other warning message of
> CONFIG_TINY_RCU and the kernel could be built successfully. And I
> confirmed that the built kernel works well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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