linux-kernel - [PATCH] fix UNEVICTABLE_LRU + !PROC_PAGE

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Message-ID: <20080613140209.044ecfef@cuia.bos.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:02:09 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Benjamin Kidwell <benjkidwell@...oo.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, benjkidwell@...oo.com,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH] fix UNEVICTABLE_LRU + !PROC_PAGE_MONITOR build

Both CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR and CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU depend on
mm/pagewalk.c being built.  Create a CONFIG_PAGE_WALKER Kconfig
variable that is automatically selected if needed.

Debugged-by: Benjamin Kidwell <benjkidwell@...oo.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

---
 init/Kconfig |    1 +
 mm/Kconfig   |    5 +++++
 mm/Makefile  |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/init/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2.orig/init/Kconfig	2008-06-10 10:46:29.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/init/Kconfig	2008-06-13 13:57:11.000000000 -0400
@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ source "arch/Kconfig"
 config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
  	default y
 	depends on PROC_FS && MMU
+	select PAGE_WALKER
 	bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED
  	help
 	  Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/mm/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2.orig/mm/Kconfig	2008-06-11 14:39:43.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/mm/Kconfig	2008-06-13 13:58:24.000000000 -0400
@@ -206,9 +206,14 @@ config VIRT_TO_BUS
 	def_bool y
 	depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
 
+# automatically selected by UNEVICTABLE_LRU or PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
+config PAGE_WALKER
+	def_bool n
+
 config UNEVICTABLE_LRU
 	bool "Add LRU list to track non-evictable pages"
 	default y
+	select PAGE_WALKER
 	help
 	  Keeps unevictable pages off of the active and inactive pageout
 	  lists, so kswapd will not waste CPU time or have its balancing
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/mm/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2.orig/mm/Makefile	2008-06-10 10:46:29.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm2/mm/Makefile	2008-06-13 13:58:42.000000000 -0400
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ obj-y			:= bootmem.o filemap.o mempool.o
 			   prio_tree.o util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
 			   page_isolation.o $(mmu-y)
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR) += pagewalk.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_WALKER) += pagewalk.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE)	+= bounce.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP)	+= page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o thrash.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA)	+= dmapool.o

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