linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/9] kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings

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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:54:07 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings

Using "make tinyconfig" produces a couple of annoying warnings that show up
for build test machines all the time:

    .config:966:warning: override: NOHIGHMEM changes choice state
    .config:965:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
    .config:963:warning: override: KERNEL_XZ changes choice state
    .config:962:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state
    .config:933:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
    .config:930:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state
    .config:870:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
    .config:868:warning: override: KERNEL_XZ changes choice state
    .config:867:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state

I've made a previous attempt at fixing them and we discussed a number of
alternatives.

I tried changing the Makefile to use "merge_config.sh -n $(fragment-list)"
but couldn't get that to work properly.

This is yet another approach, based on the observation that we do want
to see a warning for conflicting 'choice' options, and that we can simply
make them non-conflicting by listing all other options as disabled.
This is a trivial patch that we can apply independent of plans for other
changes.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Link: https://storage.kernelci.org/mainline/v4.7-rc6/x86-tinyconfig/build.log
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9212749/
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
This version incorporates feedback from Masahiro Yamada, and includes
the x86 change that Josh mentioned

Unlike the other patches in this series, this is not a recent regression,
but it is the only non-regression warning fix I'm aware of that we
currently need for a clean build on all configurations tested by
https://kernelci.org/.
---
 arch/x86/configs/tiny.config | 2 ++
 kernel/configs/tiny.config   | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
index 4e2ecfa23c15..4b429df40d7a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
+# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
+# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
diff --git a/kernel/configs/tiny.config b/kernel/configs/tiny.config
index c2de56ab0fce..7fa0c4ae6394 100644
--- a/kernel/configs/tiny.config
+++ b/kernel/configs/tiny.config
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
+# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE is not set
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set
 CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 is not set
 CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
+# CONFIG_SLAB is not set
+# CONFIG_SLUB is not set
 CONFIG_SLOB=y
-- 
2.9.0