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SubjectRe: [PATCH x86] [15/16] Force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM without HOTPLUG_CPU

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > ok, i've dropped this patch from x86.git for now:
> >
> > Subject: x86: force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM without HOTPLUG_CPU
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> >
> > but longer-term, shouldnt these annotations be automated? We'll see
> > a constant stream of them, all around the clock as people regularly
> > get it wrong (because it's not intuitive).
>
> Would be great to have them automated - just dunno how to do it. Do
> you see a feasible way to do it?

a good starting point would be to make the warnings a lot more
self-explanatory. Right now it's often non-obvious trying to figure out
how the dependencies are structured and which one should be changed to
get rid of the bug.

> Short term modpost etc. will be enhanced to be less dependent on the
> actual configuration when performing the checks. It should not matter
> if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled or not when we check the __cpuint
> annotations but this is how we see it today so far too many faults
> slip through.

a good way i see is to:

- improve the debug output so that it's obvious at a glance what the
problem is.

- quickly reach a close-to-100%-perfect stage, brute-force. Drop
__init* annotations en masse if they are not perfectly layered.
Whoever reintroduces them will then have to do it perfectly.

- then turn these into hard failures (which they _are_ in a significant
percentage of the situations).

once it's a hard build failure, people will fix them quickly and
automated tests will pick them up as well.

Ingo


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