mirror of
https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
synced 2024-11-12 07:01:57 +00:00
9361401eb7
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>
|
||
|---|---|---|
| .. | ||
| raid6test | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| bitmap.c | ||
| dm-bio-list.h | ||
| dm-bio-record.h | ||
| dm-crypt.c | ||
| dm-emc.c | ||
| dm-exception-store.c | ||
| dm-hw-handler.c | ||
| dm-hw-handler.h | ||
| dm-io.c | ||
| dm-io.h | ||
| dm-ioctl.c | ||
| dm-linear.c | ||
| dm-log.c | ||
| dm-log.h | ||
| dm-mpath.c | ||
| dm-mpath.h | ||
| dm-path-selector.c | ||
| dm-path-selector.h | ||
| dm-raid1.c | ||
| dm-round-robin.c | ||
| dm-snap.c | ||
| dm-snap.h | ||
| dm-stripe.c | ||
| dm-table.c | ||
| dm-target.c | ||
| dm-zero.c | ||
| dm.c | ||
| dm.h | ||
| faulty.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| kcopyd.c | ||
| kcopyd.h | ||
| linear.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| md.c | ||
| mktables.c | ||
| multipath.c | ||
| raid0.c | ||
| raid1.c | ||
| raid5.c | ||
| raid6.h | ||
| raid6algos.c | ||
| raid6altivec.uc | ||
| raid6int.uc | ||
| raid6mmx.c | ||
| raid6recov.c | ||
| raid6sse1.c | ||
| raid6sse2.c | ||
| raid6x86.h | ||
| raid10.c | ||
| unroll.pl | ||
| xor.c | ||