linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] x86: merge nmi

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 23:40:45 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tom Spink <tspink@...il.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: merge nmi_32-64 to nmi.c

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:38:41PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > Even more important:
> > How do you want to handle kconfig variables set to "m"?
> > 
> > Expand them to 0.5 ?  ;-)
> 
>  :-)
> 
>  Modules use a separate set of variables with _MODULE appended to their 
> names.  Thus for an option FOO, you'll get:
> 
> #undef CONFIG_FOO
> #undef CONFIG_FOO_MODULE
> 
> if it's set to "n",
> 
> #define CONFIG_FOO 1
> #undef CONFIG_FOO_MODULE
> 
> if it's set to "y", and
> 
> #undef CONFIG_FOO
> #define CONFIG_FOO_MODULE 1
> 
> if it's set to "m".  Individual tests may check these both as they find 
> appropriate.

I do know that.


But your suggestion was:

static inline unsigned int get_nmi_count(int cpu)
{
        return cpu_x86_64 ? cpu_pda(cpu)->__nmi_count : nmi_count(cpu);
}


And Jeremy said "It would be nice if CONFIG_* expanded to 0/1".


My point was simply that like most of the fun^Wproblems we already have 
in kconfig also here the tristate logic we need would make stuff more 
tricky.


>   Maciej

cu
Adrian

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