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

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Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:31:27 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>
To:	markn@....ibm.com
Cc:	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, cmm@...ibm.com,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...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 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.


Thanks,
Badari

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