[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, 36 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 2c01a90998a..3e36107d342 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -16,6 +16,22 @@
 
 #include <asm/scatterlist.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_LBD
+# include <asm/div64.h>
+# define sector_div(a, b) do_div(a, b)
+#else
+# define sector_div(n, b)( \
+{ \
+	int _res; \
+	_res = (n) % (b); \
+	(n) /= (b); \
+	_res; \
+} \
+)
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+
 struct scsi_ioctl_command;
 
 struct request_queue;
@@ -818,24 +834,30 @@ struct work_struct;
 int kblockd_schedule_work(struct work_struct *work);
 void kblockd_flush(void);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_LBD
-# include <asm/div64.h>
-# define sector_div(a, b) do_div(a, b)
-#else
-# define sector_div(n, b)( \
-{ \
-	int _res; \
-	_res = (n) % (b); \
-	(n) /= (b); \
-	_res; \
-} \
-)
-#endif 
-
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV(major,minor) \
 	MODULE_ALIAS("block-major-" __stringify(major) "-" __stringify(minor))
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(major) \
 	MODULE_ALIAS("block-major-" __stringify(major) "-*")
 
 
+#else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
+/*
+ * stubs for when the block layer is configured out
+ */
+#define buffer_heads_over_limit 0
+
+static inline long blk_congestion_wait(int rw, long timeout)
+{
+	return timeout;
+}
+
+static inline long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void exit_io_context(void) {}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
+
 #endif