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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-02-28 20:19:06 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-02-29 18:55:42 +0100
commit757265b8c57bb8fd91785d3d1a87fb483c86c9c2 (patch)
tree49f703d8149df1864b44ef7f5a2df1c01aa94eac
parentb16bf712f491808a8c926dd481c696fe7d73ee5a (diff)
x86: delay the export removal of init_mm
delay the removal of this symbol export by one more kernel release, giving external modules such as VirtualBox a chance to stop using it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt12
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c1
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index ba899ff2a8f9..c1d1fd0c299b 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -316,3 +316,15 @@ Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system
is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: init_mm export
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
+ work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved
+ by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code
+ of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such
+ code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some
+ out-of-tree driver.
+Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
index 5b3ce7934363..3d01e47777db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ static struct files_struct init_files = INIT_FILES;
static struct signal_struct init_signals = INIT_SIGNALS(init_signals);
static struct sighand_struct init_sighand = INIT_SIGHAND(init_sighand);
struct mm_struct init_mm = INIT_MM(init_mm);
+EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(init_mm); /* will be removed in 2.6.26 */
/*
* Initial thread structure.