1. 12 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 01 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 20 7月, 2007 6 次提交
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      readahead: split ondemand readahead interface into two functions · cf914a7d
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Split ondemand readahead interface into two functions.  I think this makes it
      a little clearer for non-readahead experts (like Rusty).
      
      Internally they both call ondemand_readahead(), but the page argument is
      changed to an obvious boolean flag.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cf914a7d
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      readahead: convert filemap invocations · 3ea89ee8
      Fengguang Wu 提交于
      Convert filemap reads to use on-demand readahead.
      
      The new call scheme is to
      - call readahead on non-cached page
      - call readahead on look-ahead page
      - update prev_index when finished with the read request
      Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
      Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ea89ee8
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      mm: fault feedback #2 · 83c54070
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
      bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer.  This requires requires
      all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
      should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
      however that would be for another patch).
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      [ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83c54070
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      mm: fault feedback #1 · d0217ac0
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Change ->fault prototype.  We now return an int, which contains
      VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
       FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
      locked, and potentially other things.  This is not quite the way he wanted
      it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
      arch code).
      
      This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
      that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
      can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
      going to do that anyway.
      
      struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
      is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
      without really good reason.
      
      The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d0217ac0
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      mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) · 54cb8821
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
      the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
      
      ->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
      should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping.  The hitch here
      is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie.  pgoff).
       But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
      calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
      
      Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
      to be doing.
      
      This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
      ->populate and (later) ->nopfn.  Most of the old mechanism is still in place
      so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
      everyone switches over.
      
      The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
      subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
      to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
      
      After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
      pagecache.  Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
      
      NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed.  This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
      users have hit mainline yet.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
      [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      54cb8821
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      mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings · d00806b1
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Fix the race between invalidate_inode_pages and do_no_page.
      
      Andrea Arcangeli identified a subtle race between invalidation of pages from
      pagecache with userspace mappings, and do_no_page.
      
      The issue is that invalidation has to shoot down all mappings to the page,
      before it can be discarded from the pagecache.  Between shooting down ptes to
      a particular page, and actually dropping the struct page from the pagecache,
      do_no_page from any process might fault on that page and establish a new
      mapping to the page just before it gets discarded from the pagecache.
      
      The most common case where such invalidation is used is in file truncation.
      This case was catered for by doing a sort of open-coded seqlock between the
      file's i_size, and its truncate_count.
      
      Truncation will decrease i_size, then increment truncate_count before
      unmapping userspace pages; do_no_page will read truncate_count, then find the
      page if it is within i_size, and then check truncate_count under the page
      table lock and back out and retry if it had subsequently been changed (ptl
      will serialise against unmapping, and ensure a potentially updated
      truncate_count is actually visible).
      
      Complexity and documentation issues aside, the locking protocol fails in the
      case where we would like to invalidate pagecache inside i_size.  do_no_page
      can come in anytime and filemap_nopage is not aware of the invalidation in
      progress (as it is when it is outside i_size).  The end result is that
      dangling (->mapping == NULL) pages that appear to be from a particular file
      may be mapped into userspace with nonsense data.  Valid mappings to the same
      place will see a different page.
      
      Andrea implemented two working fixes, one using a real seqlock, another using
      a page->flags bit.  He also proposed using the page lock in do_no_page, but
      that was initially considered too heavyweight.  However, it is not a global or
      per-file lock, and the page cacheline is modified in do_no_page to increment
      _count and _mapcount anyway, so a further modification should not be a large
      performance hit.  Scalability is not an issue.
      
      This patch implements this latter approach.  ->nopage implementations return
      with the page locked if it is possible for their underlying file to be
      invalidated (in that case, they must set a special vm_flags bit to indicate
      so).  do_no_page only unlocks the page after setting up the mapping
      completely.  invalidation is excluded because it holds the page lock during
      invalidation of each page (and ensures that the page is not mapped while
      holding the lock).
      
      This also allows significant simplifications in do_no_page, because we have
      the page locked in the right place in the pagecache from the start.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d00806b1
  4. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Fix read/truncate race · a32ea1e1
      NeilBrown 提交于
      do_generic_mapping_read currently samples the i_size at the start and doesn't
      do so again unless it needs to call ->readpage to load a page.  After
      ->readpage it has to re-sample i_size as a truncate may have caused that page
      to be filled with zeros, and the read() call should not see these.
      
      However there are other activities that might cause ->readpage to be called on
      a page between the time that do_generic_mapping_read samples i_size and when
      it finds that it has an uptodate page.  These include at least read-ahead and
      possibly another thread performing a read.
      
      So do_generic_mapping_read must sample i_size *after* it has an uptodate page.
       Thus the current sampling at the start and after a read can be replaced with
      a sampling before the copy-out.
      
      The same change applied to __generic_file_splice_read.
      
      Note that this fixes any race with truncate_complete_page, but does not fix a
      possible race with truncate_partial_page.  If a partial truncate happens after
      do_generic_mapping_read samples i_size and before the copy_out, the nuls that
      truncate_partial_page place in the page could be copied out incorrectly.
      
      I think the best fix for that is to *not* zero out parts of the page in
      truncate_partial_page, but rather to zero out the tail of a page when
      increasing i_size.
      Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Acked-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a32ea1e1
  5. 17 7月, 2007 3 次提交
  6. 10 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  7. 09 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 17 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  9. 10 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  10. 09 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  11. 08 5月, 2007 4 次提交
  12. 17 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write · 65b8291c
      Zach Brown 提交于
      This patch fixes a user-triggerable oops that was reported by Leonid
      Ananiev as archived at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/8/337.
      
      dio writes invalidate clean pages that intersect the written region so that
      subsequent buffered reads go to disk to read the new data.  If this fails
      the interface tries to tell the caller that the cache is inconsistent by
      returning EIO.
      
      Before this patch we had the problem where this invalidation failure would
      clobber -EIOCBQUEUED as it made its way from fs/direct-io.c to fs/aio.c.
      Both fs/aio.c and bio completion call aio_complete() and we reference freed
      memory, usually oopsing.
      
      This patch addresses this problem by invalidating before the write so that
      we can cleanly return -EIO before ->direct_IO() has had a chance to return
      -EIOCBQUEUED.
      
      There is a compromise here.  During the dio write we can fault in mmap()ed
      pages which intersect the written range with get_user_pages() if the user
      provided them for the source buffer.  This is a crazy thing to do, but we
      can make it mostly work in most cases by trying the invalidation again.
      The compromise is that we won't return an error if this second invalidation
      fails if it's an AIO write and we have -EIOCBQUEUED.
      
      This was tested by having two processes race performing large O_DIRECT and
      buffered ordered writes.  Within minutes ext3 would see a race between
      ext3_releasepage() and jbd holding a reference on ordered data buffers and
      would cause invalidation to fail, panicing the box.  The test can be found
      in the 'aio_dio_bugs' test group in test.kernel.org/autotest.  After this
      patch the test passes.
      Signed-off-by: NZach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
      Cc: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      65b8291c
  13. 17 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] knfsd: stop NFSD writes from being broken into lots of little writes to filesystem · 29dbb3fc
      NeilBrown 提交于
      When NFSD receives a write request, the data is typically in a number of
      1448 byte segments and writev is used to collect them together.
      
      Unfortunately, generic_file_buffered_write passes these to the filesystem
      one at a time, so an e.g.  32K over-write becomes a series of partial-page
      writes to each page, causing the filesystem to have to pre-read those pages
      - wasted effort.
      
      generic_file_buffered_write handles one segment of the vector at a time as
      it has to pre-fault in each segment to avoid deadlocks.  When writing from
      kernel-space (and nfsd does) this is not an issue, so
      generic_file_buffered_write does not need to break and iovec from nfsd into
      little pieces.
      
      This patch avoids the splitting when  get_fs is KERNEL_DS as it is
      from NFSd.
      
      This issue was introduced by commit 6527c2bdAcked-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Norman Weathers <norman.r.weathers@conocophillips.com>
      Cc: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      29dbb3fc
  14. 12 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  15. 10 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  16. 11 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] dio: only call aio_complete() after returning -EIOCBQUEUED · 8459d86a
      Zach Brown 提交于
      The only time it is safe to call aio_complete() is when the ->ki_retry
      function returns -EIOCBQUEUED to the AIO core.  direct_io_worker() has
      historically done this by relying on its caller to translate positive return
      codes into -EIOCBQUEUED for the aio case.  It did this by trying to keep
      conditionals in sync.  direct_io_worker() knew when finished_one_bio() was
      going to call aio_complete().  It would reverse the test and wait and free the
      dio in the cases it thought that finished_one_bio() wasn't going to.
      
      Not surprisingly, it ended up getting it wrong.  'ret' could be a negative
      errno from the submission path but it failed to communicate this to
      finished_one_bio().  direct_io_worker() would return < 0, it's callers
      wouldn't raise -EIOCBQUEUED, and aio_complete() would be called.  In the
      future finished_one_bio()'s tests wouldn't reflect this and aio_complete()
      would be called for a second time which can manifest as an oops.
      
      The previous cleanups have whittled the sync and async completion paths down
      to the point where we can collapse them and clearly reassert the invariant
      that we must only call aio_complete() after returning -EIOCBQUEUED.
      direct_io_worker() will only return -EIOCBQUEUED when it is not the last to
      drop the dio refcount and the aio bio completion path will only call
      aio_complete() when it is the last to drop the dio refcount.
      direct_io_worker() can ensure that it is the last to drop the reference count
      by waiting for bios to drain.  It does this for sync ops, of course, and for
      partial dio writes that must fall back to buffered and for aio ops that saw
      errors during submission.
      
      This means that operations that end up waiting, even if they were issued as
      aio ops, will not call aio_complete() from dio.  Instead we return the return
      code of the operation and let the aio core call aio_complete().  This is
      purposely done to fix a bug where AIO DIO file extensions would call
      aio_complete() before their callers have a chance to update i_size.
      
      Now that direct_io_worker() is explicitly returning -EIOCBQUEUED its callers
      no longer have to translate for it.  XFS needs to be careful not to free
      resources that will be used during AIO completion if -EIOCBQUEUED is returned.
       We maintain the previous behaviour of trying to write fs metadata for O_SYNC
      aio+dio writes.
      Signed-off-by: NZach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
      Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8459d86a
  17. 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  18. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 02 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 29 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 21 10月, 2006 2 次提交
  22. 20 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  24. 01 10月, 2006 4 次提交
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      [PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups · 543ade1f
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
      Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.
      
      In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
      do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
      to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.
      
      Final available interfaces:
      
      generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
      generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
      generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler
      
      __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      543ade1f
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      [PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead · ee0b3e67
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
      aio_read()/aio_write() methods.
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ee0b3e67
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      [PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods · 027445c3
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
      collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
      aio_read()/aio_write().
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      027445c3
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      [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] · 9361401e
      David Howells 提交于
      Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
      it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
      the block layer to be present.
      
      This patch does the following:
      
       (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
           support.
      
       (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
           an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:
      
           (*) Block I/O tracing.
      
           (*) Disk partition code.
      
           (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
      
           (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
           	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
           	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
      
           (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
           	 drivers.
      
           (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
      
           (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
           	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
      
       (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
           linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
           however, still used in places, and so is still available.
      
       (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
           parts of linux/fs.h.
      
       (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
           is not enabled.
      
       (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
           required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
      
           (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
      
       (*) Makes some /proc changes:
      
           (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
      
           (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
      
       (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
           given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
      
       (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
           CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
      
       (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
           error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
      
       (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
           CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      9361401e