[PATCH RESEND 1/1] lib/Kconfig: remove DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS dependency for CPUMASK_OFFSTACK

From: Libo Chen
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 19:34:49 EST


Forcing CPUMASK_OFFSTACK to be conditoned on DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS doesn't
make a lot of sense nowaday. Even the original patch dating back to 2008,
aab46da0520a ("cpumask: Add CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK") didn't give any
rationale for such dependency.

Nowhere in the code supports the presumption that DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is
necessary for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Make no mistake, it's good to
have DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS for debugging purpose or precaution, but it's
simply not a hard requirement for CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Moreover, x86 Kconfig
already can set CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y without DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS=y.
There is no reason other architectures cannot given the fact that they
have even fewer, if any, arch-specific CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS code than
x86.

Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 087e06b4cdfd..7209039dfb59 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ config CHECK_SIGNATURE
bool

config CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
- bool "Force CPU masks off stack" if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
+ bool "Force CPU masks off stack"
help
Use dynamic allocation for cpumask_var_t, instead of putting
them on the stack. This is a bit more expensive, but avoids
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2.27.0