Re: [PATCH v4] genirq: Add kunit tests for depth counts

[Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 12:37:31PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The new code calls irq_domain_alloc_descs(), making it dependent
> on IRQ_DOMAIN. However, specifying that dependency directly is not
> possible:
> 
>  config IRQ_KUNIT_TEST
>         bool "KUnit tests for IRQ management APIs" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
>         depends on KUNIT=y
> +       depends on IRQ_DOMAIN
>         default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
>         imply SMP
>         help
> 
> results in:
> 
> *** Default configuration is based on 'defconfig'
> error: recursive dependency detected!
> 	symbol SMP is implied by IRQ_KUNIT_TEST
> 	symbol IRQ_KUNIT_TEST depends on IRQ_DOMAIN
> 	symbol IRQ_DOMAIN is selected by IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> 	symbol IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY is selected by GENERIC_IRQ_IPI
> 	symbol GENERIC_IRQ_IPI depends on SMP
> 
> This is seen with alpha configurations such as alpha:defconfig after
> adding the IRQ_DOMAIN dependency.
> 
> I have no idea how to resolve this. For now I disabled IRQ_KUNIT_TEST
> for my alpha test builds.

How about 'select'? That's the usual way IRQ_DOMAIN is managed anyway.

It builds for me, but my distro doesn't provide an Alpha QEMU, so I
can't test it.

--- a/kernel/irq/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/irq/Kconfig
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ config IRQ_KUNIT_TEST
 	bool "KUnit tests for IRQ management APIs" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
 	depends on KUNIT=y
 	default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	select IRQ_DOMAIN
 	imply SMP
 	help
 	  This option enables KUnit tests for the IRQ subsystem API. These are