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prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel

There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally compiled
rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which has never been
useful, and has often resulted in great frustration.

The attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the
kernel. It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module. People
wishing to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot
are free to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m"
line.

Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Paul E. McKenney and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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lib/Kconfig.debug
··· 378 378 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST 379 379 tristate "torture tests for RCU" 380 380 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 381 + depends on m 381 382 default n 382 383 help 383 384 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 384 385 on the RCU infrastructure. The kernel module may be built 385 386 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 386 387 387 - Say Y here if you want RCU torture tests to start automatically 388 - at boot time (you probably don't). 389 388 Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module. 390 389 Say N if you are unsure. 391 390