linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU

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Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:39:17 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     paulmck@...nel.org, Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
Cc:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        "Joel Fernandes, Google" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, apw@...onical.com,
        joe@...ches.com, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        andrii@...nel.org, kafai@...com, songliubraving@...com, yhs@...com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, kpsingh@...nel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE

On 7/18/21 2:08 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 06:03:34AM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
>> Hi Paul
>> During the research, I found a already existing tool to detect
>> undefined Kconfig macro:
>> scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py. It is marvellous!
> 
> Nice!  Maybe I should add this to torture.sh.
> 

Paul, I believe that subsystems should take care of themselves,
so you can do that for RCU, e.g., but at the same time, I think that
some CI should be running that script (and other relevant scripts)
on the entire kernel tree and reporting problems that are found.

-- 
~Randy