On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:48:23AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote: > We used to have USERFAULTFD configs stored in init/. It makes sense as a > start because that's the default place for storing syscall related configs. > > However userfaultfd evolved a bit in the past few years and some more > config options were added. They're no longer related to syscalls and start > to be not suitable to be kept in the init/ directory anymore, because > they're pure mm concepts. > > But it's not ideal either to keep the userfaultfd configs separate from > each other. Hence this patch moves the userfaultfd configs under init/ to > be under mm/ so that we'll start to group all userfaultfd configs > together. > > We do have quite a few examples of syscall related configs that are not put > under init/Kconfig: FTRACE_SYSCALLS, SWAP, FILE_LOCKING, MEMFD_CREATE.. > They all reside in the dir where they're more suitable for the concept. So > it seems there's no restriction to keep the role of having syscall related > CONFIG_* under init/ only. > > Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
