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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>2006-06-23 13:05:51 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-23 18:43:07 +0400
commitd83015b8f62ee3fcd338f6f009051ed57f77a531 (patch)
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parent55f4e8d156d23709739029afb108932ef94cac94 (diff)
downloadlinux-d83015b8f62ee3fcd338f6f009051ed57f77a531.tar.xz
[PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules
Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt15
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index 07cb93b82ba9..6e459420ee9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -790,7 +790,6 @@ RCU pointer update:
RCU grace period:
- synchronize_kernel (deprecated)
synchronize_net
synchronize_sched
synchronize_rcu
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index f7293297f326..027285d0c26c 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -33,21 +33,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
---------------------------
-What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When: April 2006
-Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
-Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
- vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
- VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary
- drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
- are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
- So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
- people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
- of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
-Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
When: November 2006
Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is