[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>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

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