The systemcfg page through procfs is only a backwards-compatible
interface for very old applications.
Make it possible to be disabled.
This also creates a convenient config #define to guard any accesses to
the systemcfg page.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_powerpc.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 8094a01974cca1d27002720e706f66bec2a2d035..5d348e1f09d730002eee9894a0b2847e1dac15d5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -1298,6 +1298,14 @@ config MODULES_SIZE
endmenu
+config PPC64_PROC_SYSTEMCFG
+ def_bool y
+ depends on PPC64 && PROC_FS
+ help
+ This option enables the presence of /proc/ppc64/systemcfg through
+ which the systemcfg page can be accessed.
+ This interface only exists for backwards-compatibility.
+
if PPC64
# This value must have zeroes in the bottom 60 bits otherwise lots will break
config PAGE_OFFSET
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_powerpc.c
index 910d2082e05fd86bd1146815d4b67633a6f2b459..3bda365843e44357538651c6c24c11a41de2eb06 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/proc_powerpc.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
#include <asm/rtas.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_PROC_SYSTEMCFG
static loff_t page_map_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off, int whence)
{
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int __init proc_ppc64_init(void)
}
__initcall(proc_ppc64_init);
-#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64_PROC_SYSTEMCFG */
/*
* Create the ppc64 and ppc64/rtas directories early. This allows us to
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