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SubjectRe: + task_struct-make-journal_info-conditional.patch added to -mm tree
>Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:58:06PM +0900, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
>>> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:40:57PM -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
>>>>> --- a/include/linux/sched.h~task_struct-make-journal_info-conditional
>>>>> +++ a/include/linux/sched.h
>>>>> @@ -1452,8 +1452,10 @@ struct task_struct {
>>>>> gfp_t lockdep_reclaim_gfp;
>>>>> #endif
>>>>>
>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_FS_JOURNAL_INFO
>>>>> /* journalling filesystem info */
>>>>> void *journal_info;
>>>>> +#endif
>>>> This will prevent using e.g. ext3 on CONFIG_EXT3_FS=n kernels.
>>> I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're mentioning.
>>
>> With this patch admin must decide in advance if he will ever use ext3.
>> EXT3_FS=n kernels won't be able to get ext3 support without reboot
>> even as module, because task_struct will be different.
>
>I see, you want to keep this field for future use even if EXT3_FS=n.
>I think, however, there might be a need to remove this because the user
>never enable any journaling filesystem.

Do you have some background to remove the "void *" from task_struct?
You need it for embedded purpose?

Ryusuke Konishi


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