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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64: add HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT config
Hi Heiko,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:41:24AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 04:21:10PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 12:11:16AM +0800, yalin wang wrote:
> > > i just enable it on ARM64,
> > > and it can work,
> > > i don’t see some special requirement to enable this config .
> >
> > Right, so why does HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT exist?
>
> If I remember correctly then the only dependency was that an architecture
> must have implemented save_stack_trace_tsk().
> See git commit a3afe70b83fdbbd4d757d2911900d168bc798a31.

Thanks for the pointer.

> So the name of HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT is surely a not well chosen, and I
> think I introduced it back then. Oh, well.
>
> And looking through the kernel there is at least avr32 which would break
> at build time if the config option would be removed completely.
>
> So.. renaming it to STACKTRACE_TSK_SUPPORT would be a good idea.

ftrace has a similar issue and solves it by having architectures define
a `config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT' symbol. Over in kernel/trace/Kconfig,
there's a `select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT', which means
that kernel/stacktrace.c gets built and a dummy (weak symbol) version of
save_stack_trace_tsk appears.

I don't think adding another STACKTRACE-related Kconfig option is
necessarily the best thing to do. Maybe we should instead have LATENCYTOP
depend on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT (already the case) and select STACKTRACE?

Will


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