Hi Julian,
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:40 PM Julian Braha <julianbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, March 21, 2021 2:28:43 PM EDT you wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 1:17 AM Julian Braha <julianbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > When LATENCYTOP is enabled and ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> > > is disabled, Kbuild gives the following warning:
> > >
> > > WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for FRAME_POINTER
> > > Depends on [n]: DEBUG_KERNEL [=y] && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) ||
> > > ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS [=n] || MCOUNT [=n]
> > > Selected by [y]:
> > > - LATENCYTOP [=y] && DEBUG_KERNEL [=y] && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT [=y] &&
> > > PROC_FS [=y] && !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC &&
> > > !X86
> > >
> > > This is because LATENCYTOP selects FRAME_POINTER,
> > > without selecting or depending on ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS,
> > > despite FRAME_POINTER depending on ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Julian Braha <julianbr...@gmail.com>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > > --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > > @@ -1675,6 +1675,7 @@ config LATENCYTOP
> > > depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> > > depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
> > > depends on PROC_FS
> > > + select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 &&
> > > !MICROBLAZE && !ARM && !ARC && !X86
> >
> > ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS is a symbol that is only to be selected by
> > architecture-specific configuration, and must not be overridden:
> >
> > # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
> > # is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config
> > # option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG):
> >
> > Probably this should be turned into a depends instead?
> >
> > > select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE &&
> > > !ARM && !ARC && !X86
> > > select KALLSYMS
> > > select KALLSYMS_ALL
> Making this a 'depends' causes a recursive dependency error.
> Any other ideas?
What about
-select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE &&
!ARM && !ARC && !X86
+depends on FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
&& !ARM && !ARC && !X86
?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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