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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2006-09-30 22:45:40 +0400 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk> | 2006-09-30 22:52:31 +0400 |
commit | 9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 (patch) | |
tree | 04b94a71f2366988c17740d1c16cfbdec41d5d2e /block | |
parent | d366e40a1cabd453be6e2609caa7e12f9ca17b1f (diff) | |
download | linux-9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7.tar.xz |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig.iosched | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | block/Makefile | 2 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index b6f5f0a79655..9af6c614dfde 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -1,6 +1,24 @@ # # Block layer core configuration # +config BLOCK + bool "Enable the block layer" + default y + help + This permits the block layer to be removed from the kernel if it's not + needed (on some embedded devices for example). If this option is + disabled, then blockdev files will become unusable and some + filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable. + + This option will also disable SCSI character devices and USB storage + since they make use of various block layer definitions and + facilities. + + Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and + suchlike. + +if BLOCK + #XXX - it makes sense to enable this only for 32-bit subarch's, not for x86_64 #for instance. config LBD @@ -33,4 +51,6 @@ config LSF If unsure, say Y. +endif + source block/Kconfig.iosched diff --git a/block/Kconfig.iosched b/block/Kconfig.iosched index 48d090e266fc..903f0d3b6852 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig.iosched +++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +if BLOCK menu "IO Schedulers" @@ -67,3 +68,5 @@ config DEFAULT_IOSCHED default "noop" if DEFAULT_NOOP endmenu + +endif diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile index c05de0e0037f..4b84d0d5947b 100644 --- a/block/Makefile +++ b/block/Makefile @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Makefile for the kernel block layer # -obj-y := elevator.o ll_rw_blk.o ioctl.o genhd.o scsi_ioctl.o +obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK) := elevator.o ll_rw_blk.o ioctl.o genhd.o scsi_ioctl.o obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP) += noop-iosched.o obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS) += as-iosched.o |