Re: [PATCH] mm: add dummy can_do_mlock() helper

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Mon 09-09-19 22:41:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On kernels without CONFIG_MMU, we get a link error for the siw
> driver:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_mem.o: In function `siw_umem_get':
> siw_mem.c:(.text+0x4c8): undefined reference to `can_do_mlock'
> 
> This is probably not the only driver that needs the function
> and could otherwise build correctly without CONFIG_MMU, so
> add a dummy variant that always returns false.
> 
> Fixes: 2251334dcac9 ("rdma/siw: application buffer management")
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Makes sense
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

but IB on nonMMU? Whut? Is there any HW that actually supports this?
Just wondering...

> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 66f296181bcc..cc292273e6ba 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1424,7 +1424,11 @@ extern void pagefault_out_of_memory(void);
>  
>  extern void show_free_areas(unsigned int flags, nodemask_t *nodemask);
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>  extern bool can_do_mlock(void);
> +#else
> +static inline bool can_do_mlock(void) { return false; }
> +#endif
>  extern int user_shm_lock(size_t, struct user_struct *);
>  extern void user_shm_unlock(size_t, struct user_struct *);
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.0
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs