Re: [PATCH 01/16] CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS: set if CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:05 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Using these functions with offstack cpus is unsafe.  They use all NR_CPUS
> bits, unstead of nr_cpumask_bits.
> 
> In particular, lustre (in staging) used cpus_ and that caused a bug.
> 
> Reported-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> index 87da53bb1fef..722427805220 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -398,8 +398,8 @@ config CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
>  	  stack overflow.
>  
>  config DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
> -       bool "Disable obsolete cpumask functions" if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
> -       depends on BROKEN
> +       bool
> +       depends on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK

This removes the "prompt" from this symbol's entry. And nothing selects
it either (not in next-20150302 nor in this series). So I think this
just disables this Kconfig symbol entirely. Ie, it can't be set even if
CPUMAK_OFFSTACK is set.

Should this entry perhaps be using
    def_bool y

instead?

>  config CPU_RMAP
>  	bool

Thanks,


Paul Bolle