linux-kernel - Re: revoke: no revoke for nommu

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:09:07 +0800
From:	"Wu, Bryan" <bryan.wu@...log.com>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bryan.wu@...log.com, dhowells@...hat.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: revoke: no revoke for nommu

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:12 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> 
> There's just no sane way to revoke shared memory mappings for NOMMU so lets
> disable the thing completely when CONFIG_MMU=n.
> 
> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com> 
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> ---
>  fs/Makefile |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: uml-2.6/fs/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- uml-2.6.orig/fs/Makefile	2007-03-26 15:08:42.000000000 +0300
> +++ uml-2.6/fs/Makefile	2007-03-26 15:09:03.000000000 +0300
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ obj-y :=	open.o read_write.o file_table.
>  		attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o aio.o \
>  		seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o \
>  		pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o utimes.o \
> -		stack.o revoke.o revoked_inode.o
> +		stack.o
>  
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_BLOCK),y)
>  obj-y +=	buffer.o bio.o block_dev.o direct-io.o mpage.o ioprio.o
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ else
>  obj-y +=	no-block.o
>  endif
>  
> +obj-$(CONFIG_MMU)		+= revoke.o revoked_inode.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY)		+= inotify.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER)	+= inotify_user.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_EPOLL)		+= eventpoll.o

This solution is not completed in NOMMU.
at least ext2 fs can't find generic_file_revoke():

Log from 2.6.21-rc5-mm2
---
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
fs/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x2c1c): undefined reference to `generic_file_revoke'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/git-tree/linux-2.6'
make: *** [linux] Error 1

$ grep -r generic_file_revoke fs/
fs/ext2/file.c: .revoke         = generic_file_revoke,
Binary file fs/ext2/file.o matches
Binary file fs/ext2/ext2.o matches
Binary file fs/ext2/built-in.o matches
fs/ext3/file.c: .revoke         = generic_file_revoke,
fs/revoke.c:int generic_file_revoke(struct file *file)
fs/revoke.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_revoke);
fs/ext4/file.c: .revoke         = generic_file_revoke,
Binary file fs/built-in.o matches
_

Thanks
-Bryan Wu
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