Re: [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'

[Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>]

Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> writes:

> 2018-08-14 19:38 GMT+09:00 Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>:
>> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> writes:
>>
>>> Currently, Kconfig does not report anything about the recursive
>>> dependency where 'imply' keywords are involved.
>>>
>>> [Test Code]
>>>
>>>   config A
>>>           bool "a"
>>>
>>>   config B
>>>           bool "b"
>>>           imply A
>>>           depends on A
>>
>> Hello Masahiro,
>>
>> obviously, it is hard to find a reason why one wants to use dependencies
>> like above but I also wonder how e.g. menuconfig handles this case:
>>
>> First, only "a" is visible, if I then select "a", "b" does not become
>> visible but when I then reset "a" to "n", "b" becomes visible.  If I then
>> try to select "b", it becomes invisible...
>>
>> Perhaps it would be better to just error out instead of giving users the
>> impression, Kconfig thinks such questionable behavior is OK.
>
>
> Taking closer look at the code, the intention is 'recursive dependency
> is error',
> but the behavior changed probably by an accident.
>
> I fixed this:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10566301/
>
>> Side note: perhaps, the documentation could be better when it comes to
>>            recursive dependencies.  The documentation says "select" and
>>            "imply" can be used to specify lower limits whereas direct
>>            dependencies specify upper limits for symbol values and with
>>            this in mind, one might wonder why it is a problem to work
>>            with both limits in a recursive way.
>>
>>            Not very unlikely that it is just me who still has to
>>            understand recursive dependencies or problems with reading
>>            English text, though.
>
>
> To avoid confusion, two things should be discussed separately:
>
> [1] Unmet dependency
>    This is caused by a conflict between the upper limit from 'depends on'
>    and the lower limit from 'select'.
>
>     This issue does not happen for 'imply' because the upper limit
>     specified by 'imply' is weaker.
>
>
> [2] Recursive depenency
>
>    This can happen for any combination of 'depends on',
>    'select', 'imply', 'if', 'default', etc.

Yes, this is probably just a subject that I still have to get a deeper
understanding for, hence I am easyly confused when faced with
contradicting information.

>> What definitely seems to get void with your patches is item c) in
>> "Practical solutions to kconfig recursive issue" in
>> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language:
>>
>>         c) Consider the use of "imply" instead of "select"
>
>
> I do not know why commit 237e3ad0f195d8 added this line.
>
>
> Actually, I was also confused.
>
> I sent v2 based on your feedback.

Thanks for your responses, making that all more understandable.

Dirk

>
>
>> Dirk
>>
>>> In the code above, Kconfig cannot calculate the symbol values correctly
>>> due to the circular dependency.  For example, allyesconfig followed by
>>> syncconfig results in an odd behavior because CONFIG_B becomes visible
>>> in syncconfig.
>>>
>>>   $ make allyesconfig
>>>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --allyesconfig Kconfig
>>>   #
>>>   # configuration written to .config
>>>   #
>>>   $ cat .config
>>>   #
>>>   # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
>>>   # Main menu
>>>   #
>>>   CONFIG_A=y
>>>   $ make syncconfig
>>>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
>>>   *
>>>   * Restart config...
>>>   *
>>>   *
>>>   * Main menu
>>>   *
>>>   a (A) [Y/n/?] y
>>>     b (B) [N/y/?] (NEW)
>>>
>>> To report this correctly, sym_check_expr_deps() should recurse to
>>> not only sym->rev_dep.expr but also sym->implied.expr .
>>>
>>> At this moment, sym_check_print_recursive() cannot distinguish
>>> 'select' and 'imply' since it does not know the precise context
>>> where the recursive dependency is hit.  This will be solved by
>>> the next commit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 9 +++++++--
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
>>> index 4ec8b1f..7de7463a 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
>>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
>>> @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ static void sym_check_print_recursive(struct symbol *last_sym)
>>>                               sym->name ? sym->name : "<choice>",
>>>                               next_sym->name ? next_sym->name : "<choice>");
>>>               } else {
>>> -                     fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:\tsymbol %s is selected by %s\n",
>>> +                     fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:\tsymbol %s is selected or implied by %s\n",
>>>                               prop->file->name, prop->lineno,
>>>                               sym->name ? sym->name : "<choice>",
>>>                               next_sym->name ? next_sym->name : "<choice>");
>>> @@ -1161,8 +1161,13 @@ static struct symbol *sym_check_sym_deps(struct symbol *sym)
>>>       if (sym2)
>>>               goto out;
>>>
>>> +     sym2 = sym_check_expr_deps(sym->implied.expr);
>>> +     if (sym2)
>>> +             goto out;
>>> +
>>>       for (prop = sym->prop; prop; prop = prop->next) {
>>> -             if (prop->type == P_CHOICE || prop->type == P_SELECT)
>>> +             if (prop->type == P_CHOICE || prop->type == P_SELECT ||
>>> +                 prop->type == P_IMPLY)
>>>                       continue;
>>>               stack.prop = prop;
>>>               sym2 = sym_check_expr_deps(prop->visible.expr);