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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:01:42 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:20:22AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> +	# newer systemd silently relies on the presence of the epoll system call:
> +	select EPOLL
> +	select ANON_INODES
> +
> +	# newer systemd silently hangs durig early init without these:
> +	select PROC_SYSCTL
> +	select SYSCTL
> +	select POSIX_MQUEUE
> +	select POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL
> +
> +	# systemd needs this syscall:
> +	select FHANDLE
> +
> +	# systemd needs devtmpfs: "systemd[1]: Failed to mount devtmpfs at /dev: No such device"
> +	select DEVTMPFS
> +
> +	# systemd needs tmpfs: "systemd[1]: Failed to mount tmpfs at /sys/fs/cgroup: No such file or directory"
> +	select SHMEM
> +	select TMPFS
> +
> +	# systemd needs timerfd syscalls: "[    8.198625] systemd[1]: Failed to create timerfd: Function not implemented^"
> +	select TIMERFD
> +
> +	# systemd needs signalfd support: "[   45.536725] systemd[1]: Failed to allocate manager object: Function not implemented"
> +	select SIGNALFD
> +
> +	# systemd hangs during bootup without cgroup support:
> +	select CGROUPS
> +
> +	# systemd fails during bootup without this option, with a nonsensical message: "[DEPEND] Dependency failed for File System Check on /dev/sda1."
> +	select FILE_LOCKING
> +
> +	# systemd fails during bootup without this option:
> +	select FSNOTIFY
> +	select INOTIFY_USER

> And yes, many of these options are members of the 'SystemD debuggability Hall Of 
> Shame'... It cost me many, many days of painful config-bisection to figure the 
> often obscure dependencies out, so we might as well upstream this information.
> 
> Many braincells died to bring us this information!

So why not group those under CONFIG_SYSTEMD_BLOWS? I still dont have a
machine with that turd on.