Re: [PATCH 2/5] rseq: Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs

From: Peter Zijlstra

Date: Wed Jan 21 2026 - 10:15:16 EST


On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 03:50:55PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> > +#else
> > +static void rseq_slice_ext_init(struct dentry *root_dir) { }
> > +#endif
>
> It might be possible to just remove the CONFIG_DEBUG_FS ifdeffery and let the
> compiler optimize away all of the debugfs-related code automatically.

Something like the below seems to actually build for SLICE_EXT=y,
DEBUG_FS=n (got there through allnoconfig)

Final image doesn't seem to have the various _ops,_show etc symbols
either.

--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ void __rseq_trace_ip_fixup(unsigned long
}
#endif /* CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS */

-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
#ifdef CONFIG_RSEQ_STATS
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rseq_stats, rseq_stats);

@@ -222,7 +221,7 @@ static const struct file_operations debu
.release = single_release,
};

-extern void rseq_slice_ext_init(struct dentry *root_dir);
+static void rseq_slice_ext_init(struct dentry *root_dir);

static int __init rseq_debugfs_init(void)
{
@@ -235,7 +234,6 @@ static int __init rseq_debugfs_init(void
return 0;
}
__initcall(rseq_debugfs_init);
-#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */

static bool rseq_set_ids(struct task_struct *t, struct rseq_ids *ids, u32 node_id)
{
@@ -767,7 +765,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(rseq_slice_yield)
return yielded;
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
static int rseq_slice_ext_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
{
seq_printf(m, "%d\n", rseq_slice_ext_nsecs);
@@ -810,9 +807,6 @@ static void rseq_slice_ext_init(struct d
{
debugfs_create_file("slice_ext_nsec", 0644, root_dir, NULL, &slice_ext_ops);
}
-#else
-static void rseq_slice_ext_init(struct dentry *root_dir) { }
-#endif

static int __init rseq_slice_cmdline(char *str)
{
@@ -838,4 +832,6 @@ static int __init rseq_slice_init(void)
return 0;
}
device_initcall(rseq_slice_init);
+#else
+static void rseq_slice_ext_init(struct dentry *root_dir) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_RSEQ_SLICE_EXTENSION */