Re: [PATCH 1/2] UBIFS: do not select KALLSYMS_ALL

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 18:41:41 EST


On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:40:15 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All UBIFS needs is to make sure we stacktraces when UBIFS debugging
> is enabled. It is enough to select KALLSYMS for this, KALLSYMS_ALL
> is not necessary. Moreover, Randy Dunlap reported that UBIFS causes
> the following Kconfig dependency warning:
>
> warning: (UBIFS_FS_DEBUG && LOCKDEP && LATENCYTOP) selects KALLSYMS_ALL
> which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS)
>
> The reason is that KALLSYMS_ALL requires DEBUG_KERNEL and KALLSYMS, so
> ideally, to select KALLSYMS_ALL we'd need to select DEBUG_KERNEL and
> KALLSYMS first.
>
> This seems to be too much to select. The easiest way to go is to forget
> about KALLSYMS_ALL and just select KALLSYMS when UBIFS debugging is
> enabled - that should be enough for stackdumps.
>
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ubifs/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/Kconfig b/fs/ubifs/Kconfig
> index d744090..f8b0160 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/Kconfig
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config UBIFS_FS_DEBUG
> bool "Enable debugging support"
> depends on UBIFS_FS
> select DEBUG_FS
> - select KALLSYMS_ALL
> + select KALLSYMS
> help
> This option enables UBIFS debugging support. It makes sure various
> assertions, self-checks, debugging messages and test modes are compiled
> --

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

---
~Randy
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