Re: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: move RCU_NOCB_CPU dependencies to choice

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Sep 02 2014 - 13:07:38 EST


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Stefan Hengelein wrote:
> Every choice item of the "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" choice had a
> dependency to RCU_NOCB_CPU. It's more comprehensible if the choice
> itself has the dependency instead of every choice item.
> The choice itself doesn't need to be visible if there are no items
> selectable (i.e. on arch/frv) or RCU_NOCB_CPU is not defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hengelein <stefan.hengelein@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Ruprecht <rupran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks like a nice improvement, but could you please forward-port to branch
rcu/dev of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git?

Thanx, Paul

> ---
> init/Kconfig | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 197b563..d604000 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ config RCU_NOCB_CPU
> choice
> prompt "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs"
> default RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
> + depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
> help
> This option allows no-CBs CPUs (whose RCU callbacks are invoked
> from kthreads rather than from softirq context) to be specified
> @@ -737,7 +738,7 @@ choice
>
> config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
> bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
> - depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
> + depends on !NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
> help
> This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
> Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
> @@ -751,7 +752,7 @@ config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
>
> config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
> bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
> - depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
> + depends on !NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
> help
> This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
> callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins
> @@ -766,7 +767,6 @@ config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
>
> config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
> bool "All CPUs are build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
> - depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
> help
> This option forces all CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs. The rcu_nocbs=
> boot parameter will be ignored. All CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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