[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>
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- block/Kconfig 20 additions, 0 deletionsblock/Kconfig
- block/Kconfig.iosched 3 additions, 0 deletionsblock/Kconfig.iosched
- block/Makefile 1 addition, 1 deletionblock/Makefile
- drivers/block/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/block/Kconfig
- drivers/cdrom/Kconfig 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/cdrom/Kconfig
- drivers/char/Kconfig 1 addition, 0 deletionsdrivers/char/Kconfig
- drivers/char/random.c 4 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/char/random.c
- drivers/ide/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/ide/Kconfig
- drivers/md/Kconfig 3 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/md/Kconfig
- drivers/message/i2o/Kconfig 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/message/i2o/Kconfig
- drivers/mmc/Kconfig 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/mmc/Kconfig
- drivers/mmc/Makefile 2 additions, 1 deletiondrivers/mmc/Makefile
- drivers/mtd/Kconfig 6 additions, 6 deletionsdrivers/mtd/Kconfig
- drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig
- drivers/s390/block/Kconfig 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/s390/block/Kconfig
- drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/scsi/Kconfig
- fs/Kconfig 24 additions, 7 deletionsfs/Kconfig
- fs/Makefile 10 additions, 4 deletionsfs/Makefile
- fs/compat_ioctl.c 18 additions, 0 deletionsfs/compat_ioctl.c
- fs/internal.h 6 additions, 0 deletionsfs/internal.h
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