Re: [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'

From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
To: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:29:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNASjSXWYJpzkhqfMtVxTQO21Xwo2jXFLsBWLCGw5UTbWgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gh4lfxukoo.fsf@lena.gouders.net>

2018-08-14 22:44 GMT+09:00 Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>:
> Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net> writes:
>
>> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> writes:
>>
>>> Currently, Kconfig does not report anything about the recursive
>>> dependency where 'imply' keywords are involved.
>>>
>>> [Test Code]
>>>
>>>   config A
>>>           bool "a"
>>>
>>>   config B
>>>           bool "b"
>>>           imply A
>>>           depends on A
>>
>> Hello Masahiro,
>>
>> obviously, it is hard to find a reason why one wants to use dependencies
>> like above but I also wonder how e.g. menuconfig handles this case:
>>
>> First, only "a" is visible, if I then select "a", "b" does not become
>> visible but when I then reset "a" to "n", "b" becomes visible.  If I then
>> try to select "b", it becomes invisible...
>>
>> Perhaps it would be better to just error out instead of giving users the
>> impression, Kconfig thinks such questionable behavior is OK.
>>
>> Side note: perhaps, the documentation could be better when it comes to
>>            recursive dependencies.  The documentation says "select" and
>>            "imply" can be used to specify lower limits whereas direct
>>            dependencies specify upper limits for symbol values and with
>>            this in mind, one might wonder why it is a problem to work
>>            with both limits in a recursive way.
>>
>>            Not very unlikely that it is just me who still has to
>>            understand recursive dependencies or problems with reading
>>            English text, though.
>>
>> What definitely seems to get void with your patches is item c) in
>> "Practical solutions to kconfig recursive issue" in
>> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language:
>>
>>         c) Consider the use of "imply" instead of "select"
>
> Just some more information that adds to me feeling unsure about the
> correct definition of recursive dependencies:
>
> With commit 29c434f367ea (kconfig: tests: test if recursive dependencies
> are detected) a test case similar to the example above was introduced,
> explicitely stating it is _no_ recursive dependency:
>
> +# depends on and imply
> +# This is not recursive dependency
> +
> +config E1
> +       bool "E1"
> +       depends on E2
> +       imply E2
> +
> +config E2
> +       bool "E2"
>
>
> Dirk

For some reason, I added this
without thinking why.

I believe this should be recursive dependency.

Thanks.

>>
>>> In the code above, Kconfig cannot calculate the symbol values correctly
>>> due to the circular dependency.  For example, allyesconfig followed by
>>> syncconfig results in an odd behavior because CONFIG_B becomes visible
>>> in syncconfig.
>>>
>>>   $ make allyesconfig
>>>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --allyesconfig Kconfig
>>>   #
>>>   # configuration written to .config
>>>   #
>>>   $ cat .config
>>>   #
>>>   # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
>>>   # Main menu
>>>   #
>>>   CONFIG_A=y
>>>   $ make syncconfig
>>>   scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
>>>   *
>>>   * Restart config...
>>>   *
>>>   *
>>>   * Main menu
>>>   *
>>>   a (A) [Y/n/?] y
>>>     b (B) [N/y/?] (NEW)
>>>
>>> To report this correctly, sym_check_expr_deps() should recurse to
>>> not only sym->rev_dep.expr but also sym->implied.expr .
>>>
>>> At this moment, sym_check_print_recursive() cannot distinguish
>>> 'select' and 'imply' since it does not know the precise context
>>> where the recursive dependency is hit.  This will be solved by
>>> the next commit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 9 +++++++--
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
>>> index 4ec8b1f..7de7463a 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
>>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
>>> @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ static void sym_check_print_recursive(struct symbol *last_sym)
>>>                              sym->name ? sym->name : "<choice>",
>>>                              next_sym->name ? next_sym->name : "<choice>");
>>>              } else {
>>> -                    fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:\tsymbol %s is selected by %s\n",
>>> +                    fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:\tsymbol %s is selected or implied by %s\n",
>>>                              prop->file->name, prop->lineno,
>>>                              sym->name ? sym->name : "<choice>",
>>>                              next_sym->name ? next_sym->name : "<choice>");
>>> @@ -1161,8 +1161,13 @@ static struct symbol *sym_check_sym_deps(struct symbol *sym)
>>>      if (sym2)
>>>              goto out;
>>>
>>> +    sym2 = sym_check_expr_deps(sym->implied.expr);
>>> +    if (sym2)
>>> +            goto out;
>>> +
>>>      for (prop = sym->prop; prop; prop = prop->next) {
>>> -            if (prop->type == P_CHOICE || prop->type == P_SELECT)
>>> +            if (prop->type == P_CHOICE || prop->type == P_SELECT ||
>>> +                prop->type == P_IMPLY)
>>>                      continue;
>>>              stack.prop = prop;
>>>              sym2 = sym_check_expr_deps(prop->visible.expr);

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada