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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/5] build: Hook the schedulers into Kconfig



Andrew Cooper writes:

> On 08/01/16 15:47, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 11:29:18AM -0600, Jonathan Creekmore wrote:
>>> Allow the schedulers to be independently enabled or disabled at
>>> compile-time. To match existing behavior, all four schedulers are
>>> compiled in by default, although the Credit2, RTDS, and ARINC653 are
>>> marked EXPERIMENTAL to match their not currently supported status.
>> By unmarking all of them in sequence I was able to get this:
>>
>> #
>> # Schedulers
>> #
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_CREDIT is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_CREDIT2 is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_RTDS is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_ARINC653 is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_CREDIT_DEFAULT is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_CREDIT2_DEFAULT is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_RTDS_DEFAULT is not set
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_ARINC653_DEFAULT is not set
>> CONFIG_SCHED_DEFAULT="credit"
>>
>>
>> And the hypervisor did build with:
>>
>> [konrad@char xen]$ nm --defined xen-syms |grep schedulers
>> ffff82d080290d58 D __end_schedulers_array
>> ffff82d080290d58 D __start_schedulers_array
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Not exactly sure if there is some way to make us _not_ shoot
>> ourselves in the foot by mistake.
>>
>> Perhaps the build should complain if the size of the
>> __schedulers_array is zero?
>
> Hmm yes - an ASSERT() at the bottom of the linker file would be a very
> good defensive measure.
>
> A hypervisor without any schedulers compiled in will be rather sad.

I can definitely add that in.

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