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.
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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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