[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.
This patch does the following:
(*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
support.
(*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
an item that uses the block layer. This includes:
(*) Block I/O tracing.
(*) Disk partition code.
(*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
(*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
(*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
drivers.
(*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
(*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
(*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is,
however, still used in places, and so is still available.
(*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
parts of linux/fs.h.
(*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
is not enabled.
(*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
(*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
(*) Makes some /proc changes:
(*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
(*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
(*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
(*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
(*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
index 5bbd608..66bc425 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
@@ -277,12 +277,15 @@
if (i == 0)
seq_printf(f, "Character devices:\n");
chrdev_show(f, i);
- } else {
+ }
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+ else {
i -= CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE;
if (i == 0)
seq_printf(f, "\nBlock devices:\n");
blkdev_show(f, i);
}
+#endif
return 0;
}
@@ -355,6 +358,7 @@
}
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
extern struct seq_operations partitions_op;
static int partitions_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
@@ -378,6 +382,7 @@
.llseek = seq_lseek,
.release = seq_release,
};
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
extern struct seq_operations modules_op;
@@ -695,7 +700,9 @@
entry->proc_fops = &proc_kmsg_operations;
create_seq_entry("devices", 0, &proc_devinfo_operations);
create_seq_entry("cpuinfo", 0, &proc_cpuinfo_operations);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
create_seq_entry("partitions", 0, &proc_partitions_operations);
+#endif
create_seq_entry("stat", 0, &proc_stat_operations);
create_seq_entry("interrupts", 0, &proc_interrupts_operations);
#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB
@@ -707,7 +714,9 @@
create_seq_entry("buddyinfo",S_IRUGO, &fragmentation_file_operations);
create_seq_entry("vmstat",S_IRUGO, &proc_vmstat_file_operations);
create_seq_entry("zoneinfo",S_IRUGO, &proc_zoneinfo_file_operations);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
create_seq_entry("diskstats", 0, &proc_diskstats_operations);
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
create_seq_entry("modules", 0, &proc_modules_operations);
#endif