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Lukas Bulwahn 749477244b mm: Kconfig: make config SECRETMEM visible with EXPERT 
Commit 6a108a14fa ("kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT")
introduces CONFIG_EXPERT to carry the previous intent of CONFIG_EMBEDDED
and just gives that intent a much better name.  That has been clearly a
good and long overdue renaming, and it is clearly an improvement to the
kernel build configuration that has shown to help managing the kernel
build configuration in the last decade.

However, rather than bravely and radically just deleting CONFIG_EMBEDDED,
this commit gives CONFIG_EMBEDDED a new intended semantics, but keeps it
open for future contributors to implement that intended semantics:

    A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects
    CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate
    options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC
    architectures, SLOB, etc).

Since then, this CONFIG_EMBEDDED implicitly had two purposes:

  - It can make even more options visible beyond what CONFIG_EXPERT makes
    visible. In other words, it may introduce another level of enabling the
    visibility of configuration options: always visible, visible with
    CONFIG_EXPERT and visible with CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

  - Set certain default values of some configurations differently,
    following the assumption that configuring a kernel build for an
    embedded system generally starts with a different set of default values
    compared to kernel builds for all other kind of systems.

Considering the second purpose, note that already probably arguing that a
kernel build for an embedded system would choose some values differently
is already tricky: the set of embedded systems with Linux kernels is
already quite diverse.  Many embedded system have powerful CPUs and it
would not be clear that all embedded systems just optimize towards one
specific aspect, e.g., a smaller kernel image size.  So, it is unclear if
starting with "one set of default configuration" that is induced by
CONFIG_EMBEDDED is a good offer for developers configuring their kernels.

Also, the differences of needed user-space features in an embedded system
compared to a non-embedded system are probably difficult or even
impossible to name in some generic way.

So it is not surprising that in the last decade hardly anyone has
contributed changes to make something default differently in case of
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.

Currently, in v6.0-rc4, SECRETMEM is the only config switched off if
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.

As long as that is actually the only option that currently is selected or
deselected, it is better to just make SECRETMEM configurable at build time
by experts using menuconfig instead.

Make SECRETMEM configurable when EXPERT is set and otherwise default to
yes.  Further, SECRETMEM needs ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP.

This allows us to remove CONFIG_EMBEDDED in the close future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116131922.25533-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-11-30 15:58:56 -08:00
arch mm/uffd: sanity check write bit for uffd-wp protected ptes 2022-11-30 15:58:55 -08:00
block block-6.1-2022-11-05 2022-11-05 09:02:28 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible 2022-10-11 17:42:58 -06:00
Documentation mm: anonymous shared memory naming 2022-11-30 15:58:55 -08:00
drivers zram: add incompressible flag to read_block_state() 2022-11-30 15:58:53 -08:00
fs hugetlbfs: inode: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions 2022-11-30 15:58:56 -08:00
include mm: anonymous shared memory naming 2022-11-30 15:58:55 -08:00
init init: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "satify" -> "satisfy" 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: unlock if __io_run_local_work locked inside 2022-10-27 09:52:12 -06:00
ipc ipc/shm: call underlying open/close vm_ops 2022-11-22 18:50:42 -08:00
kernel percpu_counter: add percpu_counter_sum_all interface 2022-11-30 15:58:40 -08:00
lib maple_tree: mte_set_full() and mte_clear_full() clang-analyzer clean up 2022-11-30 15:58:41 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: Kconfig: make config SECRETMEM visible with EXPERT 2022-11-30 15:58:56 -08:00
net Networking fixes for 6.1-rc4, including fixes from bluetooth and 2022-11-03 10:51:59 -07:00
rust Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-12 14:46:48 -07:00
scripts kconfig: fix segmentation fault in menuconfig search 2022-11-02 17:32:05 +09:00
security lsm/stable-6.1 PR 20221031 2022-10-31 12:09:42 -07:00
sound ALSA: aoa: Fix I2S device accounting 2022-10-27 08:53:08 +02:00
tools selftests/damon: fix unnecessary compilation warnings 2022-11-30 15:58:56 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-6.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD 2022-11-06 03:30:49 -05:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address for Satya Priya 2022-11-22 18:50:43 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-11-30 14:58:42 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.1-rc4 2022-11-06 15:07:11 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.