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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [patch 1/2] kcmp: Make it to depend on CONFIG_KCMP
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:41:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51240DC0.7020302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130219221146.GR20312@moon>

On 02/19/2013 02:11 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:00:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>> I think this syscall is usefull even without c/r stuff.
>>> That's why I made it with separate config option.
>>
>> hm, OK.
>>
>> But the patch also permits CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE=y, CONFIG_KCMP=n
>> which surely isn't something which CRIU wants to support?
>
> Hmm, yes from one pov this feature is useful for out-of-c/r user,
> from another pov -- we will have to ask users to turn on additional
> CONFIG entries (which i'm sure not set by default in wide range of distros).
> Thus it seems less paiful way is either make it obj-(CHECKPOINT_RESTORE)
> as you proposed, or obj-y by default. The last can't be undone, so I'll
> prepare the patch for obj-(CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) I think.
>

Well, that's what dependencies are for.

Either way we might just want to wait for such a use case to appear, I 
don't know.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-19  6:48 [patch 0/2] make kcmp own config entry Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19  6:48 ` [patch 1/2] kcmp: Make it to depend on CONFIG_KCMP Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19  8:47   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-19  9:22   ` Michal Marek
2013-02-19  9:31     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 17:53       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-19 18:28         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 21:42           ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-19 21:48             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-19 22:02               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 21:54             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 22:00               ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-19 22:11                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 22:15                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 22:32                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 23:41                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-19  6:48 ` [patch 2/2] arm: Wire up kcmp syscall Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19  7:07   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-20  7:56     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-20 23:17     ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-21  5:43       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-23 22:31     ` Arnd Bergmann

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