Re: [PATCH] mm: unhide vmstat_text definition for CONFIG_SMP

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On Wed 11-05-16 10:32:11, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 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;

This doesn't work because it makes the whole vmstat_wq depend on
CONFIG_PROC_FS. Which is obviously bad because we both rely on doing the
periodic sync even when counters are not exported to the userspace and
it wound't compile anyway...
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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