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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:07:27 +0100
From: Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@...il.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@...il.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@...il.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: make unmet dependency warnings readable
Hi Masahiro,
Thanks for constantly improving the user experience of Kconfig.
Just one small remark below.
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:51:39PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Currently, the unmet dependency warnings end up with endlessly long
> expressions, most of which are false positives.
>
> Here is test code to demonstrate how it currently works.
>
> [Test Case]
>
> config DEP1
> def_bool y
>
> config DEP2
> def_bool n
>
> config A
> bool "A"
> select E
>
> config B
> bool "B"
> depends on DEP2
> select E
>
> config C
> bool "C"
> depends on DEP1 && DEP2
> select E
>
> config D
> def_bool n
> select E
>
> config E
> bool
> depends on DEP1 && DEP2
>
> [Result]
>
> $ make allyesconfig
> scripts/kconfig/conf --allyesconfig Kconfig
> warning: (A && B && D) selects E which has unmet direct
> dependencies (DEP1 && DEP2)
>
> Here, I see some points to be improved.
>
> First, '(A || B || D)' would make more sense than '(A && B && D)'.
> I am not sure if this is intentional, but expr_simplify_unmet_dep()
> turns OR expressions into AND, like follows:
>
> case E_OR:
> return expr_alloc_and(
>
> Second, we see false positives. 'A' is a real unmet dependency.
> 'B' is false positive because 'DEP1' is fixed to 'y', and 'B' depends
> on 'DEP2'. 'C' was correctly dropped by expr_simplify_unmet_dep().
> 'D' is also false positive because it has no chance to be enabled.
> Current expr_simplify_unmet_dep() cannot avoid those false positives.
>
> After all, I decided to use the same helpers as used for printing
> reverse dependencies in the help.
>
> With this commit, unreadable warnings in the real world:
>
> $ make ARCH=score allyesconfig
> scripts/kconfig/conf --allyesconfig Kconfig
> warning: (HWSPINLOCK_QCOM && AHCI_MTK && STMMAC_PLATFORM && DWMAC_IPQ806X
> && DWMAC_LPC18XX && DWMAC_OXNAS && DWMAC_ROCKCHIP && DWMAC_SOCFPGA && DWMA
> C_STI && TI_CPSW && PINCTRL_GEMINI && PINCTRL_OXNAS && PINCTRL_ROCKCHIP &&
> PINCTRL_DOVE && PINCTRL_ARMADA_37XX && PINCTRL_STM32 && S3C2410_WATCHDOG
> && VIDEO_OMAP3 && VIDEO_S5P_FIMC && USB_XHCI_MTK && RTC_DRV_AT91SAM9 && LP
> C18XX_DMAMUX && VIDEO_OMAP4 && COMMON_CLK_GEMINI && COMMON_CLK_ASPEED && C
> OMMON_CLK_NXP && COMMON_CLK_OXNAS && COMMON_CLK_BOSTON && ATMEL_ST && QCOM
> _ADSP_PIL && QCOM_Q6V5_PIL && QCOM_GSBI && ATMEL_EBI && ST_IRQCHIP && RESE
> T_IMX7 && PHY_HI6220_USB && PHY_RALINK_USB && PHY_ROCKCHIP_PCIE && PHY_DA8
> XX_USB) selects MFD_SYSCON which has unmet direct dependencies (HAS_IOMEM)
> warning: (PINCTRL_AT91 && PINCTRL_AT91PIO4 && PINCTRL_OXNAS && PINCTRL_PIS
> TACHIO && PINCTRL_PIC32 && PINCTRL_MESON && PINCTRL_NOMADIK && PINCTRL_MTK
> && PINCTRL_MT7622 && GPIO_TB10X) selects OF_GPIO which has unmet direct d
> ependencies (GPIOLIB && OF && HAS_IOMEM)
> warning: (FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER && LATENCYTOP && LOCKDEP) sele
> cts FRAME_POINTER which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && (CR
> IS || M68K || FRV || UML || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || ARC
> H_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS)
>
> will be turned into:
>
> $ make ARCH=score allyesconfig
> scripts/kconfig/conf --allyesconfig Kconfig
>
> WARNING:
> Unmet direct dependencies detected for MFD_SYSCON
> Depends on:
> HAS_IOMEM [=n]
> Selected by [y]:
> - PINCTRL_STM32 [=y] && PINCTRL [=y] && (ARCH_STM32 || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> && OF [=y]
> - RTC_DRV_AT91SAM9 [=y] && RTC_CLASS [=y] && (ARCH_AT91 || COMPILE_TEST
> [=y])
> - ATMEL_ST [=y] && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS [=y]
> - RESET_IMX7 [=y] && RESET_CONTROLLER [=y]
> - PHY_HI6220_USB [=y] && (ARCH_HISI && ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> - PHY_RALINK_USB [=y] && (RALINK || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> - PHY_ROCKCHIP_PCIE [=y] && (ARCH_ROCKCHIP && OF [=y] || COMPILE_TEST
> [=y])
>
> WARNING:
> Unmet direct dependencies detected for OF_GPIO
> Depends on:
> GPIOLIB [=y] && OF [=y] && HAS_IOMEM [=n]
> Selected by [y]:
> - PINCTRL_MTK [=y] && PINCTRL [=y] && (ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
> [=y]) && OF [=y]
> - PINCTRL_MT7622 [=y] && PINCTRL [=y] && (ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
> [=y]) && OF [=y] && (ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
>
> WARNING:
> Unmet direct dependencies detected for FRAME_POINTER
> Depends on:
> DEBUG_KERNEL [=y] && (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || SUPERH || BLACKFIN
> || MN10300 || METAG) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS [=n]
> Selected by [y]:
> - LATENCYTOP [=y] && DEBUG_KERNEL [=y] && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT [=y] &&
> PROC_FS [=y] && !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND &&
> !ARC && !X86
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - update test case
>
> scripts/kconfig/expr.c | 29 -----------------------------
> scripts/kconfig/expr.h | 1 -
> scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/expr.c b/scripts/kconfig/expr.c
> index 49376e1..235e179 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/expr.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/expr.c
> @@ -1150,35 +1150,6 @@ expr_get_leftmost_symbol(const struct expr *e)
> return expr_copy(e);
> }
>
> -/*
> - * Given expression `e1' and `e2', returns the leaf of the longest
> - * sub-expression of `e1' not containing 'e2.
> - */
> -struct expr *expr_simplify_unmet_dep(struct expr *e1, struct expr *e2)
> -{
> - struct expr *ret;
> -
> - switch (e1->type) {
> - case E_OR:
> - return expr_alloc_and(
> - expr_simplify_unmet_dep(e1->left.expr, e2),
> - expr_simplify_unmet_dep(e1->right.expr, e2));
> - case E_AND: {
> - struct expr *e;
> - e = expr_alloc_and(expr_copy(e1), expr_copy(e2));
> - e = expr_eliminate_dups(e);
> - ret = (!expr_eq(e, e1)) ? e1 : NULL;
> - expr_free(e);
> - break;
> - }
> - default:
> - ret = e1;
> - break;
> - }
> -
> - return expr_get_leftmost_symbol(ret);
It looks like expr_get_leftmost_symbol() has no more callers left and
could be removed with this patch?
Thanks,
Eugeniu.
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