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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2006-07-10 04:45:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-10 13:24:26 -0700 |
| commit | c59923a15c12d2b3597af913bf234a0ef264a38b (patch) | |
| tree | b501b52309d68e711b7e162b570c16e535922d32 | |
| parent | f84dfe82962759f3355eacc8e377361bb77b5274 (diff) | |
[PATCH] remove the tasklist_lock export
As announced half a year ago this patch will remove the tasklist_lock
export. The previous two patches got rid of the remaining modular users.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 99f219a01e0..ee287988934 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -166,17 +166,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> --------------------------- -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 diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 56e4e07e45f..926e5a68ea9 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ int max_threads; /* tunable limit on nr_threads */ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts) = 0; - __cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock); /* outer */ - -EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock); +__cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock); /* outer */ int nr_processes(void) { |