[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, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 64b508e..131ffd3 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+
 enum bh_state_bits {
 	BH_Uptodate,	/* Contains valid data */
 	BH_Dirty,	/* Is dirty */
@@ -301,4 +303,18 @@ static inline void lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh)
 }
 
 extern int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page);
+
+#else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
+
+static inline void buffer_init(void) {}
+static inline int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page) { return 1; }
+static inline int sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev) { return 0; }
+static inline int inode_has_buffers(struct inode *inode) { return 0; }
+static inline void invalidate_inode_buffers(struct inode *inode) {}
+static inline int remove_inode_buffers(struct inode *inode) { return 1; }
+static inline int sync_mapping_buffers(struct address_space *mapping) { return 0; }
+static inline void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers) {}
+
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
 #endif /* _LINUX_BUFFER_HEAD_H */