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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 23:42:31 -0700
From: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel
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Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 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: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This seems reasonable to me.  I can imagine legitimate reasons to want to
have rcutorture running as early as possible, but as you said, anyone
wishing to do so can hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug easily enough.

Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>

- Josh Triplett

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