From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754627AbbGCIIA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2015 04:08:00 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43208 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754583AbbGCIHu (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2015 04:07:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:07:45 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: LKML Subject: config RCU_EQS_DEBUG Message-ID: <20150703100745.7993f403@endymion.delvare> Organization: SUSE Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Paul, You just introduced a Linux kernel configuration option named RCU_EQS_DEBUG. Its short description is "Use this when adding any sort of NO_HZ support to your arch". I'm afraid this is a bad way to briefly explain what the option actually does (which is what the short description is for.) A sentence like "use this when adding any sort of NO_HZ support to your arch" should go in the help text, not the short description. The short description should be something like along the lines of "Enable consistency checks for RCU", for example. Additionally I see some inconsistency in the fact that this option defaults to n but the help text says "Say Y if you are unsure". BTW, option RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO is equally inconsistent with a default y and "say N if you are unsure" in the help text. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support