linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: make SCHED_MC and SCHED

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Message-ID: <20160414084727.GA23207@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:47:28 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>
Cc:	catalin.marinas@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: make SCHED_MC and SCHED_SMT depend on SMP

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:54:12PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> SCHED_MC and SCHED_SMT are pointless when SMP is disabled.
> Although SMP is rarely disabled for ARM64, it looks more consistent to have
> such depend in Kconfig.

You can't disable CONFIG_SMP for arm64 -- we select it unconditionally
in the kconfig.

Will