linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: make frontswap.c explicitly non-modular

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Message-ID: <20150922152836.GG4454@l.oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:28:36 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm: make frontswap.c explicitly non-modular

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:14:41PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> config FRONTSWAP
>     bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present"
> 
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Lets remove the couple traces of modularity so that when reading the
> driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> 
> Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
> case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit.  However
> one could argue that subsys_initcall might make more sense here.
> 
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>

I would add to the commit:

Frontswap depends on CONFIG_SWAP and there is currently no way
to make swap dynamically loaded.

> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> ---
>  mm/frontswap.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
> index 27a9924caf61..b36409766831 100644
> --- a/mm/frontswap.c
> +++ b/mm/frontswap.c
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>  #include <linux/swap.h>
>  #include <linux/swapops.h>
>  #include <linux/security.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
>  #include <linux/frontswap.h>
>  #include <linux/swapfile.h>
> @@ -500,5 +500,4 @@ static int __init init_frontswap(void)
>  #endif
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -
> -module_init(init_frontswap);
> +device_initcall(init_frontswap);
> -- 
> 2.5.0
> 
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