linux-ext4 - Re: [patch 1/2] add init_ext4_proc() stub for when CONFIG_PROC

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Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:28:34 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>
To:	cmm@...ibm.com
Cc:	markn@....ibm.com, ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] add init_ext4_proc() stub for when CONFIG_PROC_FS
	is not set

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:03 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:31 -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:50 +1000, markn@....ibm.com wrote:
> > > plain text document attachment (ext4-add-init_ext4_proc-stub.patch)
> > > init_ext4_fs() calls init_ext4_proc() so we need a stub init_ext4_proc()
> > > for the case that CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set.
> > > Without the stub we get a build error:
> > > 
> > > fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function 'init_ext4_proc':
> > > fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2837: error: 'proc_root_fs' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2837: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > > fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2837: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > > 
> > > Add a stub init_ext4_proc() function that does nothing but return 0
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@....ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    7 +++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > Index: ext4/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- ext4.orig/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > > +++ ext4/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > > @@ -2825,6 +2825,7 @@ static int ext4_mb_destroy_per_dev_proc(
> > >  	return 0;
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> > >  int __init init_ext4_proc(void)
> > >  {
> > >  	ext4_pspace_cachep =
> > > @@ -2840,6 +2841,12 @@ int __init init_ext4_proc(void)
> > >  
> > >  	return 0;
> > >  }
> > > +#else
> > > +int __init init_ext4_proc(void)
> > > +{
> > > +	return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +#endif
> > >  
> > >  void exit_ext4_proc(void)
> > >  {
> > 
> > Nope. I don't think we can do this :(
> > 
> > For example, we need to create ext4_pspace_cachep kmem cache 
> > for the pre-allocation to work. We can't ifdef it out.
> > 
> > Mingming/Amit, can you take a look at this ? It looks like
> > we NEED procfs support to make mballoc work. If so, we need
> > to add it to the dependency.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I guess our testing did not catch this up because we have CONFIG_PROC_FS
> enabled all the time. mballoc needs procfs for exporting some stats info
> and tunable paramenters to optimize/customize multiple allocation.
> 
> We could select CONFIG_PROC_FS at kconfig when ext4dev is enabled.

For testing it may be okay, but in the long run we need to make sure
that ext4 doesn't depend on PROC_FS support for operation :( 

It would be nice to make it work without PROC_FS dependency, if you
configure procfs we should get more info/tunables..

ext4_pspace_cachep creation has to be moved to somewhere else ?

Thanks,
Badari

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