Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86: Cleanup Kconfig

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > So I'd rather do it the other way around: move the remaining selects from X86_32 
> > and X86_64 to the X86 section, and maybe group them by bitness.
> 
> I did !sort, because otherwise the below advantage is impossible to
> spot. The downside, the patch is somewhat big.

Looks good to me!

We might try a formatting trick to make it more readable, i.e. something like:

config X86
	def_bool y
	select ACPI_LEGACY_TABLES_LOOKUP	if ACPI
	select ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT	if ACPI
	select ANON_INODES
	select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
	select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
	select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
	select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
	select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC		if ACPI
	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128		if X86_64
	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING	if X86_64
	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF		if X86_64
	select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
	select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION	if X86_32
	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
	select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
	select CLKEVT_I8253
	select CLKSRC_I8253			if X86_32
	select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
	select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
	select CLONE_BACKWARDS			if X86_32
	select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION		if IA32_EMULATION
	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
	select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
	select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST	if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
	select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
	select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
	select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
	select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
	select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
	select GENERIC_IOMAP
	select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
	select GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ		if SMP
	select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
	select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
	select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
	select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
	select HAVE_ACPI_APEI			if ACPI
	select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI		if ACPI
	select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE		if SLUB
	select HAVE_AOUT			if X86_32
	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP		if X86_64 || X86_PAE
	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN			if X86_64 && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
	select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
	select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
	select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY		if X86_64
	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
	select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
	select HAVE_BPF_JIT			if X86_64
	select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING		if X86_64
	select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
	select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
	select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
	select HAVE_FENTRY			if X86_64
	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT	if X86_32
	select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
	select HAVE_IDE
	select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
	select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK	if X86_64
	select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
	select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
	select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
	select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
	select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
	select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
	select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
	select HAVE_KPROBES
	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
	select HAVE_KVM
	select HAVE_LIVEPATCH			if X86_64
	select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
	select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
	select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
	select HAVE_OPROFILE
	select HAVE_OPTPROBES
	select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
	select HAVE_PERF_REGS
	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
	select HAVE_UID16			if X86_32
	select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
	select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA		if X86_64
	select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL		if X86_32
	select OLD_SIGACTION			if X86_32
	select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3			if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
	select PERF_EVENTS
	select RTC_LIB
	select SPARSE_IRQ
	select SRCU
	select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
	select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
	select VIRT_TO_BUS
	select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS			if X86_64
	select X86_FEATURE_NAMES		if PROC_FS

?

Thanks,

	Ingo