From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate per-arch stack overflow debugging options
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:10:31 +0000
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To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org

On 11/01/13 17:00, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for some Acked-bys on this from the various arch
> maintainers that it affects.  I'd like to send it up to Linus
> in the next merge window.  This is part of a larger series to
> clean up the "Kernel Hacking" menu:
> 
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/17/306
> 
> --
> 
> Several architectures have similar stack debugging config options.
> They all pretty much do the same thing, some with slightly
> differing help text.
> 
> This patch changes the architectures to instead enable a Kconfig
> boolean, and then use that boolean in the generic Kconfig.debug
> to present the actual menu option.  This removes a bunch of
> duplication and adds consistency across arches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org

Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>

(I can use this for arch/metag too).

Cheers
James