linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile)

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Message-ID: <20141123233637.GC12456@thin>
Date:	Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:36:37 -0800
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	Pieter Smith <pieter@...sman.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice
 family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile)

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 09:30:40PM +0100, Pieter Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:43:26AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 01:46:23PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > > Truly removing sendfile/sendpage means that you can't even compile NFS
> > > into the tree.
> > 
> > If you mean the in-kernel nfsd (CONFIG_NFSD), that already has a large
> > stack of "select" and "depends on", both directly and indirectly; adding
> > a "select SPLICE_SYSCALL" to it seems fine.  (That select does need
> > adding, though.  Pieter, you need to test-compile more than just
> > tinyconfig and defconfig.  Try an allyesconfig with *just* splice turned
> > off, and make sure that compiles.)
> 
> Did exacly that. Took forever on my hardware, but no problems.

Ah, I see.  Looking more closely at nfsd, it looks like it already has a
code path for filesystems that don't do splice.  I think, rather than
making nfsd select SPLICE_SYSCALL, that it would suffice to change the
"rqstp->rq_splice_ok = true;" in svc_process_common (net/sunrpc/svc.c)
to:

rqstp->rq_splice_ok = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPLICE_SYSCALL);

Then nfsd should simply *always* fall back to its non-splice support.

That said, given that it seems exceedingly unlikely that anyone would
use the in-kernel nfsd on a system trying to minimize kernel size, it
still seems cleaner to just "select SPLICE_SYSCALL" from NFSD in
Kconfig.  That avoids making any changes at all to the nfsd source in
this patch series.

- Josh Triplett
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