Re: [PATCH v2] fs: ntfs: Disable NTFS_RW for PPC

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Nov 23 2021 - 11:11:52 EST


On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 10:43:48PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
[ ... ]
> >
> > So we are looking for something like
> >
> > config DISABLE_NTFS_RW
> > bool
> > default y if PAGE_SIZE_256KB || PPC_256K_PAGES || \
> > PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || \
> > PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES
> >
> > Anything else ?
>
> Can we do something like this instead?
>
> I'm pretty sure it does what we want for NTFS, and also for VMXNET3.
>
> It is not pretty, but at least keeps the arch specifics out of driver
> Kconfigs.
>
> cheers
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 26b8ed11639d..d3c4ab249e9c 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -991,6 +991,16 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
> and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
> Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
>
> +config PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
> + def_bool y
> + depends on !ARM64_64K_PAGES
> + depends on !IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
> + depends on !PAGE_SIZE_64KB
> + depends on !PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
> + depends on !PPC_64K_PAGES
> + depends on !PPC_256K_PAGES
> + depends on !PAGE_SIZE_256KB
> +

Sure, works for me. I'll wait another day or two for additional feedback
before sending out v3.

Guenter

> # This allows to use a set of generic functions to determine mmap base
> # address by giving priority to top-down scheme only if the process
> # is not in legacy mode (compat task, unlimited stack size or
> diff --git a/fs/ntfs/Kconfig b/fs/ntfs/Kconfig
> index 1667a7e590d8..f93e69a61283 100644
> --- a/fs/ntfs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/ntfs/Kconfig
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config NTFS_DEBUG
> config NTFS_RW
> bool "NTFS write support"
> depends on NTFS_FS
> + depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
> help
> This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
>