From 9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:45:40 +0200 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/Makefile | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/Makefile') diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index 46b8cfe497b2..a503e6ce0f32 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -5,12 +5,18 @@ # Rewritten to use lists instead of if-statements. # -obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o buffer.o bio.o super.o \ - block_dev.o char_dev.o stat.o exec.o pipe.o namei.o fcntl.o \ +obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o super.o \ + char_dev.o stat.o exec.o pipe.o namei.o fcntl.o \ ioctl.o readdir.o select.o fifo.o locks.o dcache.o inode.o \ attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o aio.o \ - seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o mpage.o direct-io.o \ - ioprio.o pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o + seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o \ + pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o + +ifeq ($(CONFIG_BLOCK),y) +obj-y += buffer.o bio.o block_dev.o direct-io.o mpage.o ioprio.o +else +obj-y += no-block.o +endif obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY) += inotify.o obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER) += inotify_user.o -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522