locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile time
authorJeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:49:34 +0000 (09:49 -0500)
committerJeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:49:34 +0000 (09:49 -0500)
commit9e8925b67a809bb27ce4b7d352d67f25cf1d7fc5
tree3a349e8389f85f87c9c559f5e1860855694e6bae
parent8005c49d9aea74d382f474ce11afbbc7d7130bec
locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile time

Mandatory locking appears to be almost unused and buggy and there
appears no real interest in doing anything with it.  Since effectively
no one uses the code and since the code is buggy let's allow it to be
disabled at compile time.  I would just suggest removing the code but
undoubtedly that will break some piece of userspace code somewhere.

For the distributions that don't care about this piece of code
this gives a nice starting point to make mandatory locking go away.

Cc: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
fs/Kconfig
fs/locks.c
fs/namespace.c
include/linux/fs.h