* Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/4/25 Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>:
> >
> > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > depends on VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
> >> >
> >> > It should _really_ select both the RCU and the CPU time accounting model
> >> > automatically!
> >>
> >> Yeah I know. I have yet to fix that in Kconfig (it's a Kconfig limitation).
> >
> > Why cannot we simply select it and its dependencies, explicitly, for the
> > time being? Something like:
> >
> > depends on 64BIT
> > select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> > select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
> >
> > 90% of the .config's have VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN turned off, because it's
> > a default-off feature - so dynticks-full is effectively hidden from the
> > large majority of testers...
>
> Whatever we do, it seems that select does not work with choices.
>
> Michal, we are running into an issue where a Kconfig option needs to
> select CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN but this latter option is part of
> a choice menu so it doesn't work. As a result we are forced to use a
> "depends on" and this hides the high level option we are interested in
> (here full dynticks) behind its low level dependency. How hard do you
> think it would be to fix this? I tried something that worked half-way
> but I quickly got lost in the Kconfig maze.
While it's not an ideal solution, we could try to create three bools out
of the choice options, as a workaround?
Thanks,
Ingo
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