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prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 23 May 2007 20:57:41 +0000 (13:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 May 2007 03:14:12 +0000 (20:14 -0700)
commit9aaffc898ff4a3df18c5fc4b9e0fa47e779ad726
tree184caf9ce53a2b107d0fc89b3f90efbf9cc5c515
parentcf6acedbeac17dea1c1eed85048a72e188f3f768
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: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/Kconfig.debug