[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, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index b290aadb1d3..dc1ec0803ef 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -285,7 +285,11 @@ void __init mount_block_root(char *name, int flags)
 {
 	char *fs_names = __getname();
 	char *p;
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+#else
+	const char *b = name;
+#endif
 
 	get_fs_names(fs_names);
 retry:
@@ -304,7 +308,9 @@ retry:
 		 * Allow the user to distinguish between failed sys_open
 		 * and bad superblock on root device.
 		 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 		__bdevname(ROOT_DEV, b);
+#endif
 		printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
 				root_device_name, b);
 		printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
@@ -316,7 +322,10 @@ retry:
 	for (p = fs_names; *p; p += strlen(p)+1)
 		printk(" %s", p);
 	printk("\n");
-	panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", __bdevname(ROOT_DEV, b));
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+	__bdevname(ROOT_DEV, b);
+#endif
+	panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
 out:
 	putname(fs_names);
 }
@@ -387,8 +396,10 @@ void __init mount_root(void)
 			change_floppy("root floppy");
 	}
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 	create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV);
 	mount_block_root("/dev/root", root_mountflags);
+#endif
 }
 
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