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| -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 99f219a01e0e..ee287988934e 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 56e4e07e45f7..926e5a68ea9e 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) { |