From 9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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 <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
include/linux/buffer_head.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
(limited to 'include/linux/buffer_head.h')
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 64b508e35d2a..131ffd37e716 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+
enum bh_state_bits {
BH_Uptodate, /* Contains valid data */
BH_Dirty, /* Is dirty */
@@ -301,4 +303,18 @@ static inline void lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh)
}
extern int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page);
+
+#else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
+
+static inline void buffer_init(void) {}
+static inline int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page) { return 1; }
+static inline int sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev) { return 0; }
+static inline int inode_has_buffers(struct inode *inode) { return 0; }
+static inline void invalidate_inode_buffers(struct inode *inode) {}
+static inline int remove_inode_buffers(struct inode *inode) { return 1; }
+static inline int sync_mapping_buffers(struct address_space *mapping) { return 0; }
+static inline void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers) {}
+
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
#endif /* _LINUX_BUFFER_HEAD_H */
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