On Wed, 11 May 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> In randconfig builds with sysfs, procfs and numa all disabled,
> but SMP enabled, we now get a link error in the newly introduced
> vmstat_refresh function:
>
> mm/built-in.o: In function `vmstat_refresh':
Hmmm... vmstat_refresh should not be build if CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set
since there will be no way to trigger it. Lets not complicate this
further.
Subject: Do not build vmstat_refresh if there is no procfs support
It makes no sense to build functionality into the kernel that
cannot be used and causes build issues.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux/mm/vmstat.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/vmstat.c
+++ linux/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1358,7 +1358,6 @@ static const struct file_operations proc
.llseek = seq_lseek,
.release = seq_release,
};
-#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static struct workqueue_struct *vmstat_wq;
@@ -1422,7 +1421,10 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab
*lenp = 0;
return 0;
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w)
{
if (refresh_cpu_vm_stats(true)) {
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