Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 13 May 2003 23:32:19 -0700


Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:32:07PM -0700, Christopher Hoover wrote:
> > Not everyone needs futex support, so it should be optional. This is
> > needed for small platforms.
>
> Looks good. I think you want to disable it unconditionally for !CONFIG_MMU.
>

It needs some changes for non-ia32.

diff -puN init/Kconfig~CONFIG_FUTEX init/Kconfig
--- 25-power4/init/Kconfig~CONFIG_FUTEX 2003-05-13 22:12:34.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-power4-akpm/init/Kconfig 2003-05-13 22:12:34.000000000 -0700
@@ -108,8 +108,14 @@ config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
13 => 8 KB
12 => 4 KB

-endmenu

+config FUTEX
+ bool "Futex support"
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ Say Y if you want support for Fast Userspace Mutexes (Futexes).
+
+endmenu

menu "Loadable module support"

diff -puN kernel/Makefile~CONFIG_FUTEX kernel/Makefile
--- 25-power4/kernel/Makefile~CONFIG_FUTEX 2003-05-13 22:12:34.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-power4-akpm/kernel/Makefile 2003-05-13 22:15:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
obj-y = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o profile.o \
exit.o itimer.o time.o softirq.o resource.o \
sysctl.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o \
- signal.o sys.o kmod.o workqueue.o futex.o pid.o \
+ signal.o sys.o kmod.o workqueue.o pid.o \
rcupdate.o intermodule.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o

+obj-$(CONFIG_FUTEX) += futex.o
obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA) += dma.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpu.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LOCKMETER) += lockmeter.o
diff -puN kernel/sys.c~CONFIG_FUTEX kernel/sys.c
--- 25-power4/kernel/sys.c~CONFIG_FUTEX 2003-05-13 22:12:34.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-power4-akpm/kernel/sys.c 2003-05-13 22:12:34.000000000 -0700
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ cond_syscall(sys_shutdown)
cond_syscall(sys_sendmsg)
cond_syscall(sys_recvmsg)
cond_syscall(sys_socketcall)
+cond_syscall(sys_futex)

static int set_one_prio(struct task_struct *p, int niceval, int error)
{
diff -puN kernel/compat.c~CONFIG_FUTEX kernel/compat.c
--- 25-power4/kernel/compat.c~CONFIG_FUTEX 2003-05-13 22:17:56.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-power4-akpm/kernel/compat.c 2003-05-13 22:27:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -211,11 +211,10 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_sigprocmask(i
return ret;
}

-extern long do_futex(unsigned long, int, int, unsigned long);
-
asmlinkage long compat_sys_futex(u32 *uaddr, int op, int val,
struct compat_timespec *utime)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX
struct timespec t;
unsigned long timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;

@@ -225,6 +224,9 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_futex(u32 *ua
timeout = timespec_to_jiffies(&t) + 1;
}
return do_futex((unsigned long)uaddr, op, val, timeout);
+#else
+ return -ENOSYS;
+#endif
}

asmlinkage long sys_setrlimit(unsigned int resource, struct rlimit *rlim);
diff -puN include/linux/futex.h~CONFIG_FUTEX include/linux/futex.h
--- 25-power4/include/linux/futex.h~CONFIG_FUTEX 2003-05-13 22:18:20.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-power4-akpm/include/linux/futex.h 2003-05-13 22:22:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -8,4 +8,6 @@

extern asmlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, int val, struct timespec __user *utime);

+long do_futex(unsigned long uaddr, int op, int val, unsigned long timeout);
+
#endif

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