lib/glob.c: add CONFIG_GLOB_SELFTEST

This was useful during development, and is retained for future
regression testing.

GCC appears to have no way to place string literals in a particular
section; adding __initconst to a char pointer leaves the string itself
in the default string section, where it will not be thrown away after
module load.

Thus all string constants are kept in explicitly declared and named
arrays.  Sorry this makes printk a bit harder to read.  At least the
tests are more compact.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 41bfeec72e40..df872659ddd3 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -415,6 +415,20 @@ config GLOB
 	  are compiling an out-of tree driver which tells you that it
 	  depends on this.
 
+config GLOB_SELFTEST
+	bool "glob self-test on init"
+	default n
+	depends on GLOB
+	help
+	  This option enables a simple self-test of the glob_match
+	  function on startup.	It is primarily useful for people
+	  working on the code to ensure they haven't introduced any
+	  regressions.
+
+	  It only adds a little bit of code and slows kernel boot (or
+	  module load) by a small amount, so you're welcome to play with
+	  it, but you probably don't need it.
+
 #
 # Netlink attribute parsing support is select'ed if needed
 #