On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Valentin Rothberg
<valentinrothb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> wrote:
>> On Thu 23-07-15 13:18:06, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
>>> commit 106542e7987c ("fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver") removed ext3
>>> and JBD, hence remove the superfluous condition.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothb...@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> I detected the issue with undertaker-checkpatch
>>> (https://undertaker.cs.fau.de)
>>
>> Thanks. I have added your patch into my tree. BTW, is the checker automated
>> enough that it could be made part of the 0-day tests Fengguang runs?
>
> The checker is automated, but it also produces false positives for
> certain kinds of bugs/defects, so we decided to run the bot on our
> servers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. It runs daily on
> linux-next; we check the reports and fix the issue as above or we
> report it to the authors and maintainers. So we catch things as soon
> as they are in linux-next.
>
> If you want to check for symbolic issues (i.e., references on
> undefined Kconfig opionts/symbols) you can use
> scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py which detects most of the cases.
> However, this script did not catch the upper case (I will check why).
checkkconfigsymbols.py did not detect the issue since it does not
check (yet) default statements. I fixed it locally and will send a
patch tomorrow after testing it on more Linux versions.
Kind regards,
Valentin
> Kind regards,
> Valentin
>
>> Honza
>>
>>> mm/Kconfig | 8 +-------
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
>>> index e79de2bd12cd..d4e6495a720f 100644
>>> --- a/mm/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
>>> @@ -299,15 +299,9 @@ config BOUNCE
>>> # On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will
>>> often
>>> # have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to
>>> present
>>> # a 32-bit address to OHCI. So we need to use a bounce pool instead.
>>> -#
>>> -# We also use the bounce pool to provide stable page writes for jbd. jbd
>>> -# initiates buffer writeback without locking the page or setting
>>> PG_writeback,
>>> -# and fixing that behavior (a second time; jbd2 doesn't have this problem)
>>> is
>>> -# a major rework effort. Instead, use the bounce buffer to snapshot pages
>>> -# (until jbd goes away). The only jbd user is ext3.
>>> config NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
>>> bool
>>> - default y if (TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD) || (BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY && JBD)
>>> + default y if TILE && USB_OHCI_HCD
>>>
>>> config NR_QUICK
>>> int
>>> --
>>> 1.9.1
>>>
>> --
>> Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
>> SUSE Labs, CR
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