Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] rcu: sysctl: Panic on RCU Stall

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 07:49:41PM -0300, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> On 05/31/2016 04:23 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> Hi Josh,
> 
> > Sorry, realized something else a moment after sending: I don't think
> > this will build if you use the tiny RCU implementation.  That
> > implementation *does* support tracing, and if you enable tracing,
> > you'll have CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON=y, but you won't build tree.c where
> > the variable definition lives.  So, the sysctl code will reference a
> > variable that doesn't exist.
> 
> Good catch!
> 
> [root@f23 linux]# egrep '(TINY_RCU|RCU_TRACE)' .config
> CONFIG_TINY_RCU=y
> # CONFIG_TREE_RCU_TRACE is not set
> CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y
> [root@f23 linux]# make
> ...
> kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x4688): undefined reference to `sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall'
> Makefile:937: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> 
> How about this change in the condition:
> -#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON
> +#if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU)

Looks plausible to me.  But what I would trust quite a bit more than my
own opinion would be successful builds for all three configurations.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> It worked fine here, but I may be missing something, so I better
> check with the experts :-).
> 
> Thanks for reviewing the patch set!
> 
> -- Daniel
>