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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/config: Make the x86 defconfigs a bit more usable
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:01:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220328080127.GV8939@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkC2E4HXlNN+ga8F@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 09:08:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 08:50:16AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:
> > > 
> > > Commit-ID:     aee8bf2d5aab5e7cc24fa90238930fd14d72e580
> > > Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/aee8bf2d5aab5e7cc24fa90238930fd14d72e580
> > > Author:        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > > AuthorDate:    Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:31:13 +01:00
> > > Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > > CommitterDate: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:32:20 +01:00
> > > 
> > > x86/config: Make the x86 defconfigs a bit more usable
> > > 
> > >  - Use 'make savedefconfig' to refresh & regenerate the files
> > >  - Add in KVM boot enablers
> > 
> > We shouldn't duplicate kvm_guest.config.
> 
> I think x86-defconfig should be usable by itself - not just via the 
> somewhat obscure combination of:
> 
>   make defconfig
>   make kvm_guest.config
> 
> right?

Dunno, i've been using it forever (+- the kvmconfig rename thing, which
was really annoying).

But these days I have it scripted anyway, I also typically add
DEBUG_INFO to any .config that I end up booting.

> > >  - Enable the cgroup features most distros rely on
> > 
> > I've not yet had defconfig+kvm_guest.config fail to boot on debian
> > images (I occasionally grab one here:
> > https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/sid/daily/latest/ )
> 
> Systemd is rather negative about missing cgroup features - at a point it 
> used to insert 30(?) seconds delays during bootup warning about missing 
> cgroups support, etc.
> 
> Also the main Debian derived distros (Ubuntu, etc.) plus Debian itself has 
> most of cgroups enabled - so why should we test something that very few 
> users are using?

Yeah, don't mind. I just hadn't had problems booting anything.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-28  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6PkRPjnHE@gmail.com>
2022-03-24  8:50 ` [tip: x86/urgent] x86/config: Make the x86 defconfigs a bit more usable tip-bot2 for Ingo Molnar
2022-03-24 10:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-03-27 19:08     ` Ingo Molnar
2022-03-28  8:01       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-03-27 19:08 ` tip-bot2 for Ingo Molnar

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