Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Mysterious CFQ crash and RCU | From | Paul Bolle <> | Date | Wed, 25 May 2011 19:44:51 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:33 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:17:16PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > > 2) So shouldn't either the config entry be set to "tristate" or the > > module support removed from kernel/rcutree_trace.c? > > No. > > Just set CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y and you will have RCU tracing. Here is why: > >[...] > > So you can set CONFIG_RCU_TRACE, and if you are running CONFIG_SMP=y, > you will have RCU tracing in your kernel.
The point - which I must have expressed poorly - is that there's a mismatch between the code in kernel/rcutree_trace.c (which allows for that file to be built as a module) and its kconfig setup (which requires it to be either builtin or not built at all, since it's boolean). Anyhow, your explanation makes clear that this kconfig setup is actually correct and that the module support in kernel/rcutree_trace.c might as well be removed, since that file can never be part of a module.
Paul Bolle
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