On 11/25/23 at 06:07pm, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>
> On 11/23/23 01:36, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Ignat reported a potential config regression was introduced by
> > commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options
> > into kernel/Kconfig.kexec"). Please click below link for more details:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/CALrw=nHpRQQaQTP_jZfREgrQEMpS8jBF8JQCv4ygqXycE-StaA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> >
> > The patch 1 fix the regression by removing incorrect CONFIG_KEXEC
> > ifdeffery scope adding in arm's <asm/kexec.h>, then dropping the
> > select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP. This is tested and passed a cross
> > comiping of arm.
> >
> > Patch 2 is to fix a build failure when I tested patch 1 on x86_64, the
> > wrong CONFIG_KEXEC iddeffery is replaced with CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. Test
> > passed on x86_64.
> >
> > Patch 3 is to fix an unnecessary 'select KEXEC' in s390 ARCH. Removing
> > the select won't impact anything. Test passed on a ibm-z system.
>
> I apologize for my delay in responding, I did not have a computer with me
> during my holiday travel.
>
> I was able to re-run my Kconfig test script with this patch series (now that
> I'm running this on private resources, it takes half a day 8( ). The script
> only performs comparisons of the .config before (LHSB) and after (RHSB) the
> patch series; it does NOT do any building. At any rate, what that revealed
> was only differences in s390. That means that all other arches do not have
> any unintended side effects. The differences with patch3 applied look like:
>
> FAIL: allnoconfig arch/s390/configs/kasan.config
> LHSB {'CONFIG_CRASH_CORE': 'y', 'CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE': 'y', 'CONFIG_KEXEC':
> 'y'}
> RHSB {'CONFIG_KEXEC': 'n'}
>
> The 'allnoconfig' and 'olddefconfig' targets failed for all s390 defconfigs.
> The LHSB is the pre-patch values, and the RHSB is the post-patch values. So
> this states that CRASH_CORE and KEXEC_CORE were set previously, but now they
> are not. KEXEC obviously is being turned off intentionally.
>
> Hope this helps some.
Thanks, Eric. Alexander has pointed out this in patch 3 reviewing
comment. I misunderstood the select KEXEC in s390 arch where they
intend to do. As I replied to Alexander, I will drop patch 3.
>
>
> > Baoquan He (3):
> > kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP
> > drivers/base/cpu: crash data showing should depends on KEXEC_CORE
> > s390/Kconfig: drop select of KEXEC
> >
> > arch/arm/include/asm/kexec.h | 4 ----
> > arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 -
> > drivers/base/cpu.c | 6 +++---
> > kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 1 -
> > 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
>
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