[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 970284f..6312758 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
* softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels, these
* handlers can run in process context, and can block.
*
- * This primitive provides the guarantees made by the (deprecated)
+ * This primitive provides the guarantees made by the (now removed)
* synchronize_kernel() API. In contrast, synchronize_rcu() only
* guarantees that rcu_read_lock() sections will have completed.
* In "classic RCU", these two guarantees happen to be one and
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@
void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head)));
extern void FASTCALL(call_rcu_bh(struct rcu_head *head,
void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head)));
-extern __deprecated_for_modules void synchronize_kernel(void);
extern void synchronize_rcu(void);
void synchronize_idle(void);
extern void rcu_barrier(void);