rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option

The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional.  This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index f8110051188f..707242fdbb89 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -17,11 +17,7 @@
 # define __release(x)   __context__(x,-1)
 # define __cond_lock(x,c)       ((c) ? ({ __acquire(x); 1; }) : 0)
 # define __percpu       __attribute__((noderef, address_space(3)))
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
 # define __rcu          __attribute__((noderef, address_space(4)))
-#else /* CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER */
-# define __rcu
-#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER */
 # define __private      __attribute__((noderef))
 extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *);
 extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);