Re: [PATCH] coresight replicator: set default y after Kconfig rename

From: Mathieu Poirier
Date: Thu Feb 08 2018 - 10:59:39 EST


On 7 February 2018 at 14:03, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 1c8859848dbb ("coresight replicator: Cleanup programmable
> replicator naming") changed the Kconfig symbol name from
> QCOM_REPLICATOR, which, whilst not in the single arm64 defconfig,
> was being set in my juno build script, which left the new symbol unset,
> causing the following unexpected grief:
>
> # ./perf record -vvv -C 0 -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/ --per-thread true
> ..<snip>..
> sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 5
> mmap size 528384B
> AUX area mmap length 4194304
> perf event ring buffer mmapped per cpu
> failed to mmap AUX area
> failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
>
> Make it default y to help not surprise unsuspecting users.
>
> Fixes: 1c8859848dbb ("coresight replicator: Cleanup programmable replicator naming")
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> index ef9cb3c164e1..b94bbd95efa6 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ config CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
> config CORESIGHT_DYNAMIC_REPLICATOR
> bool "CoreSight Programmable Replicator driver"
> depends on CORESIGHT_LINKS_AND_SINKS
> + default y
> help
> This enables support for dynamic CoreSight replicator link driver.
> The programmable ATB replicator allows independent filtering of the

As I said before don't see why it needs to be treated differently than other CS
blocks - intelligent replicators show up on the AMBA bus and need to
be declared in the DT. As such people are expected to enable the proper
option.

Mathieu

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