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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2006-03-24 03:18:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-24 07:33:29 -0800
commitde62a97ef576a1f6b5013139ded9893226375bbb (patch)
tree39589587c7c48b4d2e3f1dc6a1c8ddb863ce814c
parent554b7c801e379e8c0072533b4da89a3a003cbfac (diff)
[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock. The only possibly modular users left are: arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c drivers/edac/edac_mc.c fs/binfmt_elf.c which I'll send out fixes for soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@@ -185,6 +185,17 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock)
+When: August 2006
+Files: kernel/fork.c
+Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have
+ no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due
+ to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents
+ moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: mount/umount uevents
When: February 2007
Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know