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Message-ID: <6e1201a1-60c1-40a3-951f-d603b6341a11@csgroup.eu>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:49:19 +0100
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: Rename GENERIC_PTDUMP and PTDUMP_CORE



Le 13/02/2025 à 12:23, Steven Price a écrit :
> On 13/02/2025 04:09, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Platforms subscribe into generic ptdump implementation via GENERIC_PTDUMP.
>> But generic ptdump gets enabled via PTDUMP_CORE. These configs combination
>> is confusing as they sound very similar and does not differentiate between
>> platform's feature subscription and feature enablement for ptdump. Rename
>> the configs as ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP and PTDUMP making it more clear and improve
>> readability.
> 
> [...]
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc885_ads_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc885_ads_defconfig
>> index 77306be62e9e..db005618690b 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc885_ads_defconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc885_ads_defconfig
>> @@ -78,4 +78,4 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE=y
>>   CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK=y
>>   CONFIG_BDI_SWITCH=y
>>   CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG=y
>> -CONFIG_GENERIC_PTDUMP=y
>> +CONFIG_PTDUMP=y
> 
> I'd suggest dropp this from the defconfig too, just like patch 1 dropped
> it from debug.config.
> 

Thanks for spotting that.

That one is wrong. Was introduced by commit d210ee3fdfe8 
("powerpc/configs: Update config files for removed/renamed symbols") 
which aimed at fixing commit e084728393a5 ("powerpc/ptdump: Convert 
powerpc to GENERIC_PTDUMP") but it did it wrong.

It is CONFIG_PTDUMP_DEBUGFS that is wanted.