Re: kismet: WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for HUGETLBFS when selected by PPC_8xx

[Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>]

On 2025/2/6 16:47, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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> Le 06/02/2025 à 08:12, Miaohe Lin a écrit :
>> On 2025/2/6 14:30, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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>>> Le 06/02/2025 à 03:08, Miaohe Lin a écrit :
>>>> On 2025/2/6 0:35, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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>>>>> Le 05/02/2025 à 03:39, Miaohe Lin a écrit :
>>>>>> On 2025/1/24 6:24, kernel test robot wrote:
>>>>>>> tree:   https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.kernel.org%2Fpub%2Fscm%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux.git&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C4568427e535f47ba6e7108dd467da005%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638744227571348001%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rpToSy%2BI2rTH5db2ST62gNZF0efdupnNQRpYevV2CRY%3D&reserved=0 master
>>>>>>> head:   d0d106a2bd21499901299160744e5fe9f4c83ddb
>>>>>>> commit: f8142cf94d4737ea0c3baffb3b9bad8addcb9b6b hugetlb: make hugetlb depends on SYSFS or SYSCTL
>>>>>>> date:   2 years, 4 months ago
>>>>>>> config: powerpc-kismet-CONFIG_HUGETLBFS-CONFIG_PPC_8xx-0-0 (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdownload.01.org%2F0day-ci%2Farchive%2F20250124%2F202501240611.LDmD2nkj-lkp%40intel.com%2Fconfig&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C4568427e535f47ba6e7108dd467da005%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638744227571371397%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=27pzb6aOPaarlX2fX%2B3%2FvCp8GWwysleJoVw9L6Yrytc%3D&reserved=0)
>>>>>>> reproduce: (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdownload.01.org%2F0day-ci%2Farchive%2F20250124%2F202501240611.LDmD2nkj-lkp%40intel.com%2Freproduce&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C4568427e535f47ba6e7108dd467da005%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638744227571381016%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XEjM2tEaDz%2BINDJbCOD2ciJU24koPd9msdwNiP3lPLw%3D&reserved=0)
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>>>>>>> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
>>>>>>> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
>>>>>>> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>>>>>>> | Closes: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Foe-kbuild-all%2F202501240611.LDmD2nkj-lkp%40intel.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C4568427e535f47ba6e7108dd467da005%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638744227571390239%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=W%2F8GHsXQwmaG22bsTyQes1zdMG7o2aHc%2Fly%2BHO57LwI%3D&reserved=0
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>>>>>> Thanks for report. Sorry for late respond. I was on my Spring Festival vacation.
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>>>>>>> kismet warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>>>>>>>>> kismet: WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for HUGETLBFS when selected by PPC_8xx
>>>>>>>       WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for HUGETLBFS
>>>>>>>         Depends on [n]: (X86 || IA64 || SPARC64 || ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS [=y] || BROKEN [=n]) && (SYSFS [=n] || SYSCTL [=n])
>>>>>>>         Selected by [y]:
>>>>>>>         - PPC_8xx [=y] && <choice>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a bit confused. HUGETLBFS depends on SYSFS or SYSCTL. How can it be selected while SYSFS [=n] || SYSCTL [=n]?
>>>>>> Or am I miss something?
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>>>>> CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is selected by CONFIG_PPC_8xx, see commit 34536d780683 ("powerpc/8xx: Add a function to early map kernel via huge pages")
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>>>> Thanks for your providing. But I'm saying that since HUGETLBFS depends on (SYSFS or SYSCTL), how CONFIG_PPC_8xx succeeds to select it while
>>>> SYSFS and SYSCTL are disabled? I'm not really familiar with Kconfig but I assume Kconfig will confirm that the dependencies are satisfied
>>>> before HUGETLBFS is enabled. Or am I miss something?
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>>> I suggest you read https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.kernel.org%2Fkbuild%2Fkconfig-language.html&data=05%7C02%7Cchristophe.leroy%40csgroup.eu%7C4568427e535f47ba6e7108dd467da005%7C8b87af7d86474dc78df45f69a2011bb5%7C0%7C0%7C638744227571400924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UtQJlI0P7JV%2BQy0jlHFoGZ8ipnl5SzhuL1G%2Bbr0an9Y%3D&reserved=0
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>> Thanks.
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>>> Extract:
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>>> Note:
>>>      select should be used with care. select will force a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies. By abusing select you are able to select a symbol FOO even if FOO depends on BAR that is not set.
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>> IMHO, it seems it's the use of "select" breaks the dependencies and leads to the kismet warnings. So it might be better to fix the PPC_8xx side.
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> The dependencies are wrong, I have a kernel without CONFIG_SYSFS and without CONFIG_SYSCTL and hugetlbfs works perfecly well.
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> I boot the kernel with following parameters:
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>     hugepagesz=512k hugepages=8 hugepagesz=8M hugepages=2

I think you are right. Hugetlb can still be used with boot parameter while CONFIG_SYSFS and CONFIG_SYSCTL are disabled.
So my commit should be reverted.

Thanks.
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