linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] resource, kunit: add dependency on SPARSEMEM

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Message-ID: <8734lruqat.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:11:54 +0800
From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>, "Naresh
 Kamboju" <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resource, kunit: add dependency on SPARSEMEM

Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> writes:

> Building allmodconfig images on systems with SPARSEMEM=n results in
> the following message.
>
> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for GET_FREE_REGION
>   Depends on [n]: SPARSEMEM [=n]
>   Selected by [m]:
>   - RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST [=m] && RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU [=y] && KUNIT [=m]
>
> and the build ultimately fails.
>
> GET_FREE_REGION depends on SPARSEMEM, so any configuration selecting it
> also depends on SPARSEMEM. Add the missing dependency.
>
> Effectively that means that RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST is now restricted to
> systems with SPARSEMEM=y, but that can not be helped.
>
> Fixes: 99185c10d5d9 ("resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()")
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Thanks for fixing.  It's better to fix this via remove dependency of
SPARSEMEM from GET_FREE_REGION.  However, we need to sort out some merge
conflict before that.  So, I think this patch is good as a quick fix.

Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>

> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index bc8faa4509e1..52184c51b6dc 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -2635,7 +2635,7 @@ config HASH_KUNIT_TEST
>  
>  config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST
>  	tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
> -	depends on KUNIT
> +	depends on KUNIT && SPARSEMEM
>  	default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
>  	select GET_FREE_REGION
>  	help