Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm: make cleancache.c explicitly non-modular

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Aug 24 2015 - 20:10:26 EST


On August 24, 2015 6:14:33 PM EDT, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
>config CLEANCACHE
>bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present"
>
>...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.

Why not make it a tristate?


>
>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.
>
>Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>---
> mm/cleancache.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/mm/cleancache.c b/mm/cleancache.c
>index 8fc50811119b..ee0646d1c2fa 100644
>--- a/mm/cleancache.c
>+++ b/mm/cleancache.c
>@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
> * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
> */
>
>-#include <linux/module.h>
>+#include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/fs.h>
> #include <linux/exportfs.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
>@@ -316,4 +316,4 @@ static int __init init_cleancache(void)
> #endif
> return 0;
> }
>-module_init(init_cleancache)
>+device_initcall(init_cleancache)


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