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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2008-10-15 22:05:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:51 -0700
commitebf3f09c634906d371f2bfd71b41c7e0c52efe7e (patch)
tree4205040f47fba2675dc4c6b1407d15c9d6f8b355 /init
parentd8273674721faaf84bec2190c0c7a82972b37f73 (diff)
downloadlinux-ebf3f09c634906d371f2bfd71b41c7e0c52efe7e.tar.gz
Configure out AIO support
This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support
for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by
applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to
save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1115067	 119180	 217088	1451335	 162547	vmlinux
1108025	 119048	 217088	1444161	 160941	vmlinux.new
  -7042    -132       0   -7174   -1C06 +/-

This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8a8e2d00c40e..5ceff3249a2d 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -713,6 +713,14 @@ config SHMEM
 	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
 	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
 
+config AIO
+	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
+	default y
+	help
+	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
+          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
+          this option saves about 7k.
+
 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
 	default y
 	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED