On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 12:43:36PM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Commit 6a108a14fa35 ("kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT")
> introduces CONFIG_EXPERT to carry the previous intent of CONFIG_EMBEDDED
> and just gives that intent a much better name. That has been clearly a good
> and long overdue renaming, and it is clearly an improvement to the kernel
> build configuration that has shown to help managing the kernel build
> configuration in the last decade.
>
> However, rather than bravely and radically just deleting CONFIG_EMBEDDED,
> this commit gives CONFIG_EMBEDDED a new intended semantics, but keeps it
> open for future contributors to implement that intended semantics:
>
> A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects
> CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate
> options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC
> architectures, SLOB, etc).
>
> Since then, this CONFIG_EMBEDDED implicitly had two purposes:
>
> - It can make even more options visible beyond what CONFIG_EXPERT makes
> visible. In other words, it may introduce another level of enabling the
> visibility of configuration options: always visible, visible with
> CONFIG_EXPERT and visible with CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
>
> - Set certain default values of some configurations differently,
> following the assumption that configuring a kernel build for an
> embedded system generally starts with a different set of default values
> compared to kernel builds for all other kind of systems.
>
> Considering the second purpose, note that already probably arguing that a
> kernel build for an embedded system would choose some values differently is
> already tricky: the set of embedded systems with Linux kernels is already
> quite diverse. Many embedded system have powerful CPUs and it would not be
> clear that all embedded systems just optimize towards one specific aspect,
> e.g., a smaller kernel image size. So, it is unclear if starting with "one
> set of default configuration" that is induced by CONFIG_EMBEDDED is a good
> offer for developers configuring their kernels.
>
> Also, the differences of needed user-space features in an embedded system
> compared to a non-embedded system are probably difficult or even impossible
> to name in some generic way.
>
> So it is not surprising that in the last decade hardly anyone has
> contributed changes to make something default differently in case of
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.
>
> Currently, in v6.0-rc4, SECRETMEM is the only config switched off if
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.
>
> As long as that is actually the only option that currently is selected or
> deselected, it is better to just make SECRETMEM configurable at build time
> by experts using menuconfig instead.
>
> Make SECRETMEM configurable when EXPERT is set and otherwise default to
> yes. Further, SECRETMEM needs ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP.
>
> This allows us to remove CONFIG_EMBEDDED in the close future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index ceec438c0741..aa154c20b129 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -1068,7 +1068,13 @@ config IO_MAPPING
> bool
>
> config SECRETMEM
> - def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED
> + default y
> + bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT
> + depends on ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
> + help
> + Enable the memfd_secret() system call with the ability to create
> + memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and
> + not mapped to other processes and other kernel page tables.
>
> config ANON_VMA_NAME
> bool "Anonymous VMA name support"
> --
> 2.17.1
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
