Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2007 23:42:31 -0700 | From | Josh Triplett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel |
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Paul E. McKenney wrote: > There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally > compiled rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which > has never been useful, and has often resulted in great frustration. The > attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel. > It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module. People wishing > to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot are free > to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m" line. > > Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This seems reasonable to me. I can imagine legitimate reasons to want to have rcutorture running as early as possible, but as you said, anyone wishing to do so can hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug easily enough.
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
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