Re: [PATCH] arm64: remove redundant 'if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN' in Kconfig

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon Jul 15 2024 - 09:44:12 EST


On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 08:11:08AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 7/14/24 16:28, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > The condition 'select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN' is always true because
> > there is 'select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN' statement above.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > index c87d16b12e9b..d37cbfc3031e 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > @@ -167,9 +167,9 @@ config ARM64
> > select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
> > select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
> > select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> > - select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> > - select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> > - select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HW_TAGS if (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && ARM64_MTE)
> > + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
> > + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS
> > + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HW_TAGS if ARM64_MTE
> > # Some instrumentation may be unsound, hence EXPERT
> > select HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN if EXPERT
> > select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE
>
> There is another similar instance with HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER as well.
> Just wondering if the following change should be folded in here ?
>
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ config ARM64
> select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
> - select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL if HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> + select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
> select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> select HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if PERF_EVENTS && \
> HW_PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI

That looks like a sensible cleanup, but I think it'd be better as a
separate patch.

It looks like that has always been redundant since it was introduced in
commit

3646970322464c21 ("arm64: ftrace: Enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL")

... would you mind spinning a patch?

Mark.