Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86: Cleanup Kconfig

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 03 2015 - 03:26:35 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > So I'd rather do it the other way around: move the remaining selects from X86_32
> > and X86_64 to the X86 section, and maybe group them by bitness.
>
> I did !sort, because otherwise the below advantage is impossible to
> spot. The downside, the patch is somewhat big.

Looks good to me!

We might try a formatting trick to make it more readable, i.e. something like:

config X86
def_bool y
select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP if ACPI
select ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT if ACPI
select ANON_INODES
select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if X86_64
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if X86_64
select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION if X86_32
select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
select CLKEVT_I8253
select CLKSRC_I8253 if X86_32
select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32
select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION
select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
select GENERIC_IOMAP
select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ if SMP
select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI
select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI
select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB
select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32
select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE
select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64 && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY if X86_64
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select HAVE_BPF_JIT if X86_64
select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64
select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
select HAVE_FENTRY if X86_64
select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
select HAVE_IDE
select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64
select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
select HAVE_KVM
select HAVE_LIVEPATCH if X86_64
select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
select HAVE_OPROFILE
select HAVE_OPTPROBES
select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
select HAVE_PERF_REGS
select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
select HAVE_UID16 if X86_32
select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64
select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32
select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32
select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
select PERF_EVENTS
select RTC_LIB
select SPARSE_IRQ
select SRCU
select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select VIRT_TO_BUS
select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS if X86_64
select X86_FEATURE_NAMES if PROC_FS

?

Thanks,

Ingo
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