Commit 9aaffc89 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Linus Torvalds

prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel

There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally compiled
rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which has never been
useful, and has often resulted in great frustration.

The attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the
kernel.  It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module.  People
wishing to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot
are free to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m"
line.

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cf6acedb
...@@ -378,14 +378,13 @@ config FORCED_INLINING ...@@ -378,14 +378,13 @@ config FORCED_INLINING
config RCU_TORTURE_TEST config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
tristate "torture tests for RCU" tristate "torture tests for RCU"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on m
default n default n
help help
This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests
on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built
after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically
at boot time (you probably don't).
Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure. Say N if you are unsure.
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