linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: Fix compile error when CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20250602170500.48713a2b@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 17:05:00 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
 <willy@...radead.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Fix compile error when CONFIG_SHMEM is not set

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

When CONFIG_SHMEM is not set, the following compiler error occurs:

ld: vmlinux.o: in function `ttm_backup_backup_page':
(.text+0x10363bc): undefined reference to `shmem_writeout'
make[3]: *** [/work/build/trace/nobackup/linux-test.git/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:91: vmlinux.unstripped] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/work/build/trace/nobackup/linux-test.git/Makefile:1241: vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/work/build/trace/nobackup/linux-test.git/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/work/build/nobackup/tracetest'
make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

This is due to the replacement of writepage and calling swap_writepage()
and shmem_writepage() directly. The issue is that when CONFIG_SHMEM is not
defined, shmem_writepage() is also not defined. Add it as a stub, and it
should also never be called when CONFIG_SHMEM is undefined.

Fixes: 84798514db50 ("mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 858cee02ca49..dec85388030a 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -5760,6 +5760,11 @@ void shmem_unlock_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 }
 
+int shmem_writeout(struct folio *folio, struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 unsigned long shmem_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
 				      unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
-- 
2.47.2