Re: [PATCH v1 00/21] refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options

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On 6/13/23 15:21, Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 01:27:52PM -0400, Eric DeVolder wrote:
The Kconfig is refactored to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options from
various arch/<arch>/Kconfig files into new file kernel/Kconfig.kexec.

This looks very nice!

Thank you Kees!

[...]
- The boolean ARCH_HAS_<option> in effect allows the arch to determine
   when the feature is allowed.  Archs which don't have the feature
   simply do not provide the corresponding ARCH_HAS_<option>.
   For each arch, where there previously were KEXEC and/or CRASH
   options, these have been replaced with the corresponding boolean
   ARCH_HAS_<option>, and an appropriate def_bool statement.

   For example, if the arch supports KEXEC_FILE, then the
   ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_FILE simply has a 'def_bool y'. This permits the
   KEXEC_FILE option to be available.

   If the arch has a 'depends on' statement in its original coding
   of the option, then that expression becomes part of the def_bool
   expression. For example, arm64 had:

   config KEXEC
     depends on PM_SLEEP_SMP

   and in this solution, this converts to:

   config ARCH_HAS_KEXEC
     def_bool PM_SLEEP_SMP


- In order to account for the differences in the config coding for
   the three common options, the ARCH_SUPPORTS_<option> is used.
   This options has a 'depends on <option>' statement to couple it
   to the main option, and from there can insert the differences
   from the common option and the arch original coding of that option.

   For example, a few archs enable CRYPTO and CRYTPO_SHA256 for
   KEXEC_FILE. These require a ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE and
   'select CRYPTO' and 'select CRYPTO_SHA256' statements.

Naming nit: "HAS" and "SUPPORTS" feel very similar, and looking at
existing configs, "ARCH_SUPPORTS_..." is already used for doing this
kind of bare "bool" management. e.g. see ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128

It looks like you need to split "depends" and "select" so the options
can be chosen separately from the "selectable" configs.

How about naming this ARCH_SELECTS_<option>, since that's what it's
there for?

I'm OK with this. Let's see if others agree?

Thank you!
eric

-Kees




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