On Mon, 16 May 2016 16:23:33 +0200 Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Andrew, I think that the following is more straightforward fix and > should be folded in to the patch which has introduced vmstat_refresh. > --- > >From b8dd18fb7df040e1bfe61aadde1d903589de15e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> > Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 16:19:53 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] mmotm: mm-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-to-force-vmstat-update-fix > > Arnd has reported: > In randconfig builds with sysfs, procfs and numa all disabled, > but SMP enabled, we now get a link error in the newly introduced > vmstat_refresh function: > > mm/built-in.o: In function `vmstat_refresh': > :(.text+0x15c78): undefined reference to `vmstat_text' > > vmstat_refresh is proc_fs specific so there is no reason to define it > when !CONFIG_PROC_FS. I already had this: From: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> 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. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.deb.2.20.1605111011260.9...@east.gentwo.org Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> --- mm/vmstat.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/vmstat.c~mm-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-to-force-vmstat-update-fix mm/vmstat.c --- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-to-force-vmstat-update-fix +++ a/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1371,7 +1371,6 @@ 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; @@ -1436,7 +1435,10 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab *lenp = 0; return 0; } +#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ +#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w) { if (refresh_cpu_vm_stats(true)) { _
