[PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Cheng Renquan]

This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system,
mainly,

1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
   be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;

  0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch
  0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch
  0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch
  0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
  0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
  0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch

I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be
in another patch.

Request for comments, thanks.

--
Cheng Renquan, Shenzhen, China

[PATCH 1/6] [KBUILD] add symbol value to help find the real depend

[Cheng Renquan]

kbuild-menuconfig-display-depend-value.patch

Sometimes when configuring need to disable some unused item, but the item is
selected by many other items, it's hard to find the real dependency which
selected it, This patch add every symbol's value accompanied to make it
possible to find the real dependency easily.

An example is CONFIG_RFKILL,

  ---------------------- RF switch subsystem support ----------------------
  | CONFIG_RFKILL:                                                        |
  |                                                                       |
  | Say Y here if you want to have control over RF switches               |
  | found on many WiFi and Bluetooth cards.                               |
  |                                                                       |
  | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the                |
  | module will be called rfkill.                                         |
  |                                                                       |
  | Symbol: RFKILL [=m]                                                   |
  | Prompt: RF switch subsystem support                                   |
  |   Defined at net/rfkill/Kconfig:4                                     |
  |   Depends on: NET [=y]                                                |
  |   Location:                                                           |
  |     -> Networking support (NET [=y])                                  |
  |   Selected by: IWLCORE [=n] && NETDEVICES [=y] && !S390 [=S390] && PC |
  |                                                                       |
  ----------------------------------------------------------------( 99%)---

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/expr.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/expr.c b/scripts/kconfig/expr.c
index 579ece4..cd8a2f0 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/expr.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/expr.c
@@ -1098,6 +1098,8 @@ void expr_fprint(struct expr *e, FILE *out)
 static void expr_print_gstr_helper(void *data, struct symbol *sym, const char *str)
 {
 	str_append((struct gstr*)data, str);
+	if (sym)
+		str_printf((struct gstr*)data, " [=%s]", sym_get_string_value(sym));
 }
 
 void expr_gstr_print(struct expr *e, struct gstr *gs)
-- 
1.6.0.6

[PATCH 2/6] [KBUILD] add menu_get_ext_help function to display more information

[Cheng Renquan]

The three functions are moved from mconf.c, then they can be shared in
all menuconfig & gconfig & xconfig & config.

  +void menu_get_ext_help(struct menu *menu, struct gstr *help)
  +static void get_prompt_str(struct gstr *r, struct property *prop)
  +void get_symbol_str(struct gstr *r, struct symbol *sym)

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h |    2 +
 scripts/kconfig/menu.c      |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h b/scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h
index 8e69461..ffeb532 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ P(menu_get_root_menu,struct menu *,(struct menu *menu));
 P(menu_get_parent_menu,struct menu *,(struct menu *menu));
 P(menu_has_help,bool,(struct menu *menu));
 P(menu_get_help,const char *,(struct menu *menu));
+P(get_symbol_str,void,(struct gstr *r, struct symbol *sym));
+P(menu_get_ext_help,void,(struct menu *menu, struct gstr *help));
 
 /* symbol.c */
 P(symbol_hash,struct symbol *,[SYMBOL_HASHSIZE]);
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/menu.c b/scripts/kconfig/menu.c
index 07ff8d1..931d782 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/menu.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/menu.c
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 #define LKC_DIRECT_LINK
 #include "lkc.h"
 
+static const char nohelp_text[] = N_(
+	"There is no help available for this kernel option.\n");
+
 struct menu rootmenu;
 static struct menu **last_entry_ptr;
 
@@ -451,3 +454,79 @@ const char *menu_get_help(struct menu *menu)
 	else
 		return "";
 }
+
+static void get_prompt_str(struct gstr *r, struct property *prop)
+{
+	int i, j;
+	struct menu *submenu[8], *menu;
+
+	str_printf(r, _("Prompt: %s\n"), _(prop->text));
+	str_printf(r, _("  Defined at %s:%d\n"), prop->menu->file->name,
+		prop->menu->lineno);
+	if (!expr_is_yes(prop->visible.expr)) {
+		str_append(r, _("  Depends on: "));
+		expr_gstr_print(prop->visible.expr, r);
+		str_append(r, "\n");
+	}
+	menu = prop->menu->parent;
+	for (i = 0; menu != &rootmenu && i < 8; menu = menu->parent)
+		submenu[i++] = menu;
+	if (i > 0) {
+		str_printf(r, _("  Location:\n"));
+		for (j = 4; --i >= 0; j += 2) {
+			menu = submenu[i];
+			str_printf(r, "%*c-> %s", j, ' ', _(menu_get_prompt(menu)));
+			if (menu->sym) {
+				str_printf(r, " (%s [=%s])", menu->sym->name ?
+					menu->sym->name : _("<choice>"),
+					sym_get_string_value(menu->sym));
+			}
+			str_append(r, "\n");
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+void get_symbol_str(struct gstr *r, struct symbol *sym)
+{
+	bool hit;
+	struct property *prop;
+
+	if (sym && sym->name)
+		str_printf(r, "Symbol: %s [=%s]\n", sym->name,
+			   sym_get_string_value(sym));
+	for_all_prompts(sym, prop)
+		get_prompt_str(r, prop);
+	hit = false;
+	for_all_properties(sym, prop, P_SELECT) {
+		if (!hit) {
+			str_append(r, "  Selects: ");
+			hit = true;
+		} else
+			str_printf(r, " && ");
+		expr_gstr_print(prop->expr, r);
+	}
+	if (hit)
+		str_append(r, "\n");
+	if (sym->rev_dep.expr) {
+		str_append(r, _("  Selected by: "));
+		expr_gstr_print(sym->rev_dep.expr, r);
+		str_append(r, "\n");
+	}
+	str_append(r, "\n\n");
+}
+
+void menu_get_ext_help(struct menu *menu, struct gstr *help)
+{
+	struct symbol *sym = menu->sym;
+
+	if (menu_has_help(menu)) {
+		if (sym->name) {
+			str_printf(help, "CONFIG_%s:\n\n", sym->name);
+			str_append(help, _(menu_get_help(menu)));
+			str_append(help, "\n");
+		}
+	} else {
+		str_append(help, nohelp_text);
+	}
+	get_symbol_str(help, sym);
+}
-- 
1.6.0.6

[PATCH 3/6] [KBUILD] menuconfig improvements

[Cheng Renquan]

The removed functions are moved into menu.c for sharing with
gconfig & xconfig & config.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/mconf.c |   78 ++---------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
index 6841e95..51ee1f8 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
@@ -199,8 +199,6 @@ inputbox_instructions_string[] = N_(
 setmod_text[] = N_(
 	"This feature depends on another which has been configured as a module.\n"
 	"As a result, this feature will be built as a module."),
-nohelp_text[] = N_(
-	"There is no help available for this kernel option.\n"),
 load_config_text[] = N_(
 	"Enter the name of the configuration file you wish to load.  "
 	"Accept the name shown to restore the configuration you "
@@ -284,66 +282,6 @@ static void show_textbox(const char *title, const char *text, int r, int c);
 static void show_helptext(const char *title, const char *text);
 static void show_help(struct menu *menu);
 
-static void get_prompt_str(struct gstr *r, struct property *prop)
-{
-	int i, j;
-	struct menu *submenu[8], *menu;
-
-	str_printf(r, _("Prompt: %s\n"), _(prop->text));
-	str_printf(r, _("  Defined at %s:%d\n"), prop->menu->file->name,
-		prop->menu->lineno);
-	if (!expr_is_yes(prop->visible.expr)) {
-		str_append(r, _("  Depends on: "));
-		expr_gstr_print(prop->visible.expr, r);
-		str_append(r, "\n");
-	}
-	menu = prop->menu->parent;
-	for (i = 0; menu != &rootmenu && i < 8; menu = menu->parent)
-		submenu[i++] = menu;
-	if (i > 0) {
-		str_printf(r, _("  Location:\n"));
-		for (j = 4; --i >= 0; j += 2) {
-			menu = submenu[i];
-			str_printf(r, "%*c-> %s", j, ' ', _(menu_get_prompt(menu)));
-			if (menu->sym) {
-				str_printf(r, " (%s [=%s])", menu->sym->name ?
-					menu->sym->name : _("<choice>"),
-					sym_get_string_value(menu->sym));
-			}
-			str_append(r, "\n");
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-static void get_symbol_str(struct gstr *r, struct symbol *sym)
-{
-	bool hit;
-	struct property *prop;
-
-	if (sym && sym->name)
-		str_printf(r, "Symbol: %s [=%s]\n", sym->name,
-		                                    sym_get_string_value(sym));
-	for_all_prompts(sym, prop)
-		get_prompt_str(r, prop);
-	hit = false;
-	for_all_properties(sym, prop, P_SELECT) {
-		if (!hit) {
-			str_append(r, "  Selects: ");
-			hit = true;
-		} else
-			str_printf(r, " && ");
-		expr_gstr_print(prop->expr, r);
-	}
-	if (hit)
-		str_append(r, "\n");
-	if (sym->rev_dep.expr) {
-		str_append(r, _("  Selected by: "));
-		expr_gstr_print(sym->rev_dep.expr, r);
-		str_append(r, "\n");
-	}
-	str_append(r, "\n\n");
-}
-
 static struct gstr get_relations_str(struct symbol **sym_arr)
 {
 	struct symbol *sym;
@@ -699,19 +637,9 @@ static void show_helptext(const char *title, const char *text)
 static void show_help(struct menu *menu)
 {
 	struct gstr help = str_new();
-	struct symbol *sym = menu->sym;
-
-	if (menu_has_help(menu))
-	{
-		if (sym->name) {
-			str_printf(&help, "CONFIG_%s:\n\n", sym->name);
-			str_append(&help, _(menu_get_help(menu)));
-			str_append(&help, "\n");
-		}
-	} else {
-		str_append(&help, nohelp_text);
-	}
-	get_symbol_str(&help, sym);
+
+	menu_get_ext_help(menu, &help);
+
 	show_helptext(_(menu_get_prompt(menu)), str_get(&help));
 	str_free(&help);
 }
-- 
1.6.0.6

[PATCH 4/6] [KBUILD] make use of menu_get_ext_help in gconfig

[Cheng Renquan]

Futhermore, gconfig interface lack the "search a symbol" function, do later.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/gconf.c |   21 ++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
index 199b22b..6546436 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
@@ -456,19 +456,9 @@ static void text_insert_help(struct menu *menu)
 	GtkTextBuffer *buffer;
 	GtkTextIter start, end;
 	const char *prompt = _(menu_get_prompt(menu));
-	gchar *name;
-	const char *help;
+	struct gstr help = str_new();
 
-	help = menu_get_help(menu);
-
-	/* Gettextize if the help text not empty */
-	if ((help != 0) && (help[0] != 0))
-		help = _(help);
-
-	if (menu->sym && menu->sym->name)
-		name = g_strdup_printf(menu->sym->name);
-	else
-		name = g_strdup("");
+	menu_get_ext_help(menu, &help);
 
 	buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(text_w));
 	gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds(buffer, &start, &end);
@@ -478,14 +468,11 @@ static void text_insert_help(struct menu *menu)
 	gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(buffer, &end);
 	gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags(buffer, &end, prompt, -1, tag1,
 					 NULL);
-	gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(buffer, " ", 1);
-	gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(buffer, &end);
-	gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags(buffer, &end, name, -1, tag1,
-					 NULL);
 	gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(buffer, "\n\n", 2);
 	gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(buffer, &end);
-	gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags(buffer, &end, help, -1, tag2,
+	gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags(buffer, &end, str_get(&help), -1, tag2,
 					 NULL);
+	str_free(&help);
 }
 
 
-- 
1.6.0.6

[PATCH 5/6] [KBUILD] make use of menu_get_ext_help in qconfig

[Cheng Renquan]

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
index 5d0fd38..9e03592 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
@@ -1041,12 +1041,10 @@ void ConfigInfoView::menuInfo(void)
 		if (showDebug())
 			debug = debug_info(sym);
 
-		help = menu_get_help(menu);
-		/* Gettextize if the help text not empty */
-		if (help.isEmpty())
-			help = print_filter(menu_get_help(menu));
-		else
-			help = print_filter(_(menu_get_help(menu)));
+		struct gstr help_gstr = str_new();
+		menu_get_ext_help(menu, &help_gstr);
+		help = print_filter(str_get(&help_gstr));
+		str_free(&help_gstr);
 	} else if (menu->prompt) {
 		head += "<big><b>";
 		head += print_filter(_(menu->prompt->text));
-- 
1.6.0.6

[PATCH 6/6] [KBUILD] make use of menu_get_ext_help in "make config"

[Cheng Renquan]

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/conf.c |   22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
index 3e1057f..8ec35c9 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ static int conf_cnt;
 static char line[128];
 static struct menu *rootEntry;
 
-static char nohelp_text[] = N_("Sorry, no help available for this option yet.\n");
-
-static const char *get_help(struct menu *menu)
+static void print_help(struct menu *menu)
 {
-	if (menu_has_help(menu))
-		return _(menu_get_help(menu));
-	else
-		return nohelp_text;
+	struct gstr help = str_new();
+
+	menu_get_ext_help(menu, &help);
+
+	printf("\n%s\n", str_get(&help));
+	str_free(&help);
 }
 
 static void strip(char *str)
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int conf_string(struct menu *menu)
 		case '?':
 			/* print help */
 			if (line[1] == '\n') {
-				printf("\n%s\n", get_help(menu));
+				print_help(menu);
 				def = NULL;
 				break;
 			}
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int conf_sym(struct menu *menu)
 		if (sym_set_tristate_value(sym, newval))
 			return 0;
 help:
-		printf("\n%s\n", get_help(menu));
+		print_help(menu);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
 			fgets(line, 128, stdin);
 			strip(line);
 			if (line[0] == '?') {
-				printf("\n%s\n", get_help(menu));
+				print_help(menu);
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (!line[0])
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
 		if (!child)
 			continue;
 		if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == '?') {
-			printf("\n%s\n", get_help(child));
+			print_help(child);
 			continue;
 		}
 		sym_set_choice_value(sym, child->sym);
-- 
1.6.0.6

Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Randy Dunlap]

Cheng Renquan wrote:
> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system,
> mainly,
> 
> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
>    be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;
> 
>   0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch
>   0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch
>   0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch
>   0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
>   0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
>   0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch
> 
> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be
> in another patch.
> 
> Request for comments, thanks.

Hi,

I still like this idea a lot.  However, with "make gconfig" I am
seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu.
I only see this with these patches applied.

Other than that, they look good to me.


Here's the gconfig info:
rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig &
[1] 10722
rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5>   GEN     /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile
scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig
make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault
make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error 


and from the kernel log:

gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4


Thanks,
-- 
~Randy

Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Cheng Renquan]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> Cheng Renquan wrote:
>> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system,
>> mainly,
>>
>> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
>> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
>>    be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
>> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;
>>
>>   0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch
>>   0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch
>>   0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch
>>   0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
>>   0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
>>   0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch
>>
>> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be
>> in another patch.
>>
>> Request for comments, thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> I still like this idea a lot.  However, with "make gconfig" I am
> seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu.
> I only see this with these patches applied.
>
> Other than that, they look good to me.
>
>
> Here's the gconfig info:
> rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig &
> [1] 10722
> rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5>   GEN     /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile
> scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig
> make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault
> make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2
> make: *** [sub-make] Error
>
>
> and from the kernel log:
>
> gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4

Could you tell what distribution are you using? The versions of your
glibc, gtk+2.0, and glibc? If you can correctly build other gtk+
programs?

I have developed these patches on default Fedora 10 i686, it runs
well, and today I have tested it under a latest Gentoo x86_64 desktop,
all seems run well here.

thanks,

>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> ~Randy
>

-- 
Cheng Renquan (程任全), from Shenzhen, China
Dick Cavett  - "If your parents never had children, chances are...
neither will you."

Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Randy Dunlap]

Cheng Renquan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Cheng Renquan wrote:
>>> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system,
>>> mainly,
>>>
>>> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
>>> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
>>>    be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
>>> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;
>>>
>>>   0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch
>>>   0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch
>>>   0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch
>>>   0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
>>>   0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
>>>   0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch
>>>
>>> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be
>>> in another patch.
>>>
>>> Request for comments, thanks.
>> Hi,
>>
>> I still like this idea a lot.  However, with "make gconfig" I am
>> seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu.
>> I only see this with these patches applied.
>>
>> Other than that, they look good to me.
>>
>>
>> Here's the gconfig info:
>> rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig &
>> [1] 10722
>> rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5>   GEN     /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile
>> scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig
>> make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault
>> make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2
>> make: *** [sub-make] Error
>>
>>
>> and from the kernel log:
>>
>> gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4
> 
> Could you tell what distribution are you using? The versions of your
> glibc, gtk+2.0, and glibc? If you can correctly build other gtk+
> programs?

This is on OpenSUSE 10.3 on x86_64.

glibc-2.6.1-18
gtk2-2.12.0-5

I don't know that I have any other gtk+ programs.

> I have developed these patches on default Fedora 10 i686, it runs
> well, and today I have tested it under a latest Gentoo x86_64 desktop,
> all seems run well here.

Here's a backtrace from gdb.  gconfig was built without -d, however.

(gdb) set args arch/x86/Kconfig
(gdb) run
Starting program: /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000004111b6 in get_symbol_str ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000004111b6 in get_symbol_str ()
#1  0x0000000000408acb in on_treeview2_cursor_changed ()
#2  0x00002ae6c6921d2f in g_closure_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00002ae6c69341fd in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00002ae6c6935c55 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00002ae6c6936043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00002ae6c54a1ada in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#7  0x00002ae6c54a85de in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8  0x00002ae6c53b3bbf in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9  0x00002ae6c6921d2f in g_closure_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00002ae6c69345f6 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00002ae6c6935989 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00002ae6c6936043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00002ae6c54baff5 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00002ae6c53acef2 in gtk_propagate_event ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00002ae6c53ade95 in gtk_main_do_event ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00002ae6c5bb67bc in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00002ae6c6f92064 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
   from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00002ae6c6f9535d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00002ae6c6f95657 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00002ae6c53ae263 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#21 0x000000000040a7c5 in main ()
(gdb) quit


-- 
~Randy  [would be nice to have some kconfig debugging options]

Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Randy Dunlap]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Cheng Renquan wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Cheng Renquan wrote:
>>>> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system,
>>>> mainly,
>>>>
>>>> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
>>>> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
>>>>    be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
>>>> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;
>>>>
>>>>   0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch
>>>>   0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch
>>>>   0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch
>>>>   0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
>>>>   0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
>>>>   0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch
>>>>
>>>> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be
>>>> in another patch.
>>>>
>>>> Request for comments, thanks.
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I still like this idea a lot.  However, with "make gconfig" I am
>>> seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu.
>>> I only see this with these patches applied.
>>>
>>> Other than that, they look good to me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the gconfig info:
>>> rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig &
>>> [1] 10722
>>> rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5>   GEN     /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile
>>> scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig
>>> make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault
>>> make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2
>>> make: *** [sub-make] Error
>>>
>>>
>>> and from the kernel log:
>>>
>>> gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4
>> Could you tell what distribution are you using? The versions of your
>> glibc, gtk+2.0, and glibc? If you can correctly build other gtk+
>> programs?
> 
> This is on OpenSUSE 10.3 on x86_64.
> 
> glibc-2.6.1-18
> gtk2-2.12.0-5
> 
> I don't know that I have any other gtk+ programs.
> 
>> I have developed these patches on default Fedora 10 i686, it runs
>> well, and today I have tested it under a latest Gentoo x86_64 desktop,
>> all seems run well here.
> 
> Here's a backtrace from gdb.  gconfig was built without -d, however.

Here's a better backtrace; gconfig was built with -g (not -d ??!?).

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000004111b6 in get_symbol_str ()
(gdb) #0  0x00000000004111b6 in get_symbol_str ()
#1  0x0000000000408acb in on_treeview2_cursor_changed (
    treeview=<value optimized out>, user_data=<value optimized out>)
    at /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:461
#2  0x00002b61af79bd2f in g_closure_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00002b61af7ae1fd in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00002b61af7afc55 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00002b61af7b0043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00002b61ae31bada in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#7  0x00002b61ae3225de in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8  0x00002b61ae22dbbf in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9  0x00002b61af79bd2f in g_closure_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00002b61af7ae5f6 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00002b61af7af989 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00002b61af7b0043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00002b61ae334ff5 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00002b61ae226ef2 in gtk_propagate_event ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00002b61ae227e95 in gtk_main_do_event ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00002b61aea307bc in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00002b61afe0c064 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
   from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00002b61afe0f35d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00002b61afe0f657 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00002b61ae228263 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#21 0x000000000040a7c5 in main (ac=2, av=0x7ffffd048228)
    at /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:1609


-- 
~Randy

Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Cheng Renquan]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>> This is on OpenSUSE 10.3 on x86_64.
>>
>> glibc-2.6.1-18
>> gtk2-2.12.0-5
>>
>> I don't know that I have any other gtk+ programs.
>>
>>> I have developed these patches on default Fedora 10 i686, it runs
>>> well, and today I have tested it under a latest Gentoo x86_64 desktop,
>>> all seems run well here.
>>
>> Here's a backtrace from gdb.  gconfig was built without -d, however.

Your glibc and gtk version not old, the building environment seems
good, but here I don't have a OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64, really no idea on
how to resolve that problem, maybe I have chance to install a OpenSUSE
10.3 x86_64 these days, the I will try that,

Today I tested these patches on another pristine debian-5.0 (lenny)
x86_64 system, it also performed well.
On systems I tested (glibc 2.6,2.7,2.8, gtk-2.12 or gtk-2.14), it may
report warnings from gtkitemfactory.h and ununsed variables from
images.c, but doesn't matter, after "scripts/kconfig/gconf
arch/x86/Kconfig" run, the gtk gconfig window will display, with
symbol's value quoted well,

/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkitemfactory.h:47: warning: function
declaration isn’t a prototype

root@uitnode1 ~/src/linux-trees/linux-2.6.29-rc6-305-g2450cf5 # make gconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/gconf.o
scripts/kconfig/images.c:6: warning: ‘xpm_load’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:36: warning: ‘xpm_save’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:66: warning: ‘xpm_back’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:175: warning: ‘xpm_symbol_no’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:192: warning: ‘xpm_symbol_mod’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:209: warning: ‘xpm_symbol_yes’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:226: warning: ‘xpm_choice_no’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:243: warning: ‘xpm_choice_yes’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:277: warning: ‘xpm_menu_inv’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/images.c:294: warning: ‘xpm_menuback’ defined but not used
scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:946: warning: ‘renderer_toggled’ defined but not used
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/gconf
scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig

The get_symbol_str function is totally moved from mconf.c, and kept
intact, to make it available not only used by menuconfig, but also can
be used by gconfig & xconfig & config,

Maybe you can try to "make gconfig" from a vanilla
linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5 kernel, without these kbuild patches, to check
if your system can configure kernel with gconfig?

Alternatively, you can use this to compile gconfig,

gcc -Wall -Wl,--as-needed -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-D LKC_DIRECT_LINK `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0
libglade-2.0` -o scripts/kconfig/gconf scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.c scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c -lncurses
`pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0`

this will build a smaller scripts/kconfig/gconf, with less library
dependencies, or try "-O2" to "-O0", "-ggdb" to compute more debuging
information, thanks,

In the same time I found the scripts/kconfig/gconf building command
have superfluous paramters, such as "-lncurses", gconfig doesn't need
ncurses, I will post patches to reduce that later.

>
> Here's a better backtrace; gconfig was built with -g (not -d ??!?).
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00000000004111b6 in get_symbol_str ()
> (gdb) #0  0x00000000004111b6 in get_symbol_str ()
> #1  0x0000000000408acb in on_treeview2_cursor_changed (
>    treeview=<value optimized out>, user_data=<value optimized out>)
>    at /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:461
> #2  0x00002b61af79bd2f in g_closure_invoke ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #3  0x00002b61af7ae1fd in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x00002b61af7afc55 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x00002b61af7b0043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #6  0x00002b61ae31bada in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #7  0x00002b61ae3225de in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #8  0x00002b61ae22dbbf in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #9  0x00002b61af79bd2f in g_closure_invoke ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #10 0x00002b61af7ae5f6 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #11 0x00002b61af7af989 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #12 0x00002b61af7b0043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #13 0x00002b61ae334ff5 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #14 0x00002b61ae226ef2 in gtk_propagate_event ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #15 0x00002b61ae227e95 in gtk_main_do_event ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #16 0x00002b61aea307bc in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #17 0x00002b61afe0c064 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
>   from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #18 0x00002b61afe0f35d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #19 0x00002b61afe0f657 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #20 0x00002b61ae228263 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #21 0x000000000040a7c5 in main (ac=2, av=0x7ffffd048228)
>    at /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:1609
>
>
> --
> ~Randy
>

-- 
Cheng Renquan (程任全), from Shenzhen, China
Groucho Marx  - "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."

Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

[Randy Dunlap]

Cheng Renquan wrote:

[snip]


> Maybe you can try to "make gconfig" from a vanilla
> linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5 kernel, without these kbuild patches, to check
> if your system can configure kernel with gconfig?

I had already reported that gconfig without this patch series works fine.

> Alternatively, you can use this to compile gconfig,
> 
> gcc -Wall -Wl,--as-needed -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> -D LKC_DIRECT_LINK `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0
> libglade-2.0` -o scripts/kconfig/gconf scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
> scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.c scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c -lncurses
> `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0`

OK, did that.

> this will build a smaller scripts/kconfig/gconf, with less library
> dependencies, or try "-O2" to "-O0", "-ggdb" to compute more debuging
> information, thanks,

With -O0 -ggdb, this is the backtrace:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000041a6ab in get_symbol_str (r=0x7fff41724130, sym=0x0)
    at scripts/kconfig/menu.c:497
#1  0x000000000041a87c in menu_get_ext_help (menu=0xd82370, 
    help=0x7fff41724130) at scripts/kconfig/menu.c:531
#2  0x0000000000408dc3 in text_insert_help (menu=0xd82370)
    at scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:461
#3  0x000000000040a5f4 in on_treeview2_cursor_changed (treeview=0x6d03b0, 
    user_data=0x0) at scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:1102
#4  0x00002aef6a22dd2f in g_closure_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00002aef6a2401fd in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00002aef6a241c55 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7  0x00002aef6a242043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8  0x00002aef699f3ada in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9  0x00002aef699fa5de in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00002aef69905bbf in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00002aef6a22dd2f in g_closure_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00002aef6a2405f6 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00002aef6a241989 in g_signal_emit_valist ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00002aef6a242043 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00002aef69a0cff5 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00002aef698feef2 in gtk_propagate_event ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00002aef698ffe95 in gtk_main_do_event ()
   from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00002aef69db87bc in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00002aef6a69a064 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
   from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00002aef6a69d35d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x00002aef6a69d657 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#22 0x00002aef69900263 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#23 0x000000000040b846 in main (ac=2, av=0x7fff41725408)
    at scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:1609

-- 
~Randy