The patch below fixes it. --- >From 28be8f9a9da95d54b7fce80332bf2c62abfcdf73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:39:24 +0200 Subject: writeback: make the laptop_mode prototypes available unconditionally Fix the !CONFIG_BLOCK build after the recent cleanup. Fixes: 5ed964f8e54e ("mm: hide laptop_mode_wb_timer entirely behind the BDI API") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- include/linux/writeback.h | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 667e86cfbdcf..270677dc4f36 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -336,14 +336,9 @@ static inline void cgroup_writeback_umount(void) /* * mm/page-writeback.c */ -#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info); void laptop_sync_completion(void); -void laptop_mode_sync(struct work_struct *work); void laptop_mode_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t); -#else -static inline void laptop_sync_completion(void) { } -#endif bool node_dirty_ok(struct pglist_data *pgdat); int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain *dom, gfp_t gfp); #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK -- 2.30.2