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[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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paul E. McKenney 2006-06-23 02:05:51 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 55f4e8d156
commit d83015b8f6
4 changed files with 3 additions and 29 deletions
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Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
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@ -790,7 +790,6 @@ RCU pointer update:
RCU grace period:
synchronize_kernel (deprecated)
synchronize_net
synchronize_sched
synchronize_rcu

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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@ -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

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include/linux/rcupdate.h
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@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
* 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 @@ extern void FASTCALL(call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head,
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);

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kernel/rcupdate.c
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@ -612,14 +612,6 @@ void synchronize_rcu(void)
wait_for_completion(&rcu.completion);
}
/*
* Deprecated, use synchronize_rcu() or synchronize_sched() instead.
*/
void synchronize_kernel(void)
{
synchronize_rcu();
}
module_param(blimit, int, 0);
module_param(qhimark, int, 0);
module_param(qlowmark, int, 0);
@ -627,7 +619,6 @@ module_param(qlowmark, int, 0);
module_param(rsinterval, int, 0);
#endif
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_batches_completed);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(call_rcu); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(call_rcu_bh); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_bh);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(synchronize_kernel); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */