Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: convert to stop_machine_create/destroy.
  stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy.
  parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules
  module: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules for parisc
  module: fix warning of unused function when !CONFIG_PROC_FS
  kernel/module.c: compare symbol values when marking symbols as exported in /proc/kallsyms.
  remove CONFIG_KMOD

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleloader.h b/include/linux/moduleloader.h
index eb1033957486..c1f40c2f7ffb 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleloader.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleloader.h
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
                               char *secstrings,
                               struct module *mod);
 
+/* Additional bytes needed by arch in front of individual sections */
+unsigned int arch_mod_section_prepend(struct module *mod, unsigned int section);
+
 /* Allocator used for allocating struct module, core sections and init
    sections.  Returns NULL on failure. */
 void *module_alloc(unsigned long size);
diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
index 74d59a641362..baba3a23a814 100644
--- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h
+++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
@@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);
  * won't come or go while it's being called.  Used by hotplug cpu.
  */
 int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);
+
+/**
+ * stop_machine_create: create all stop_machine threads
+ *
+ * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads to be created before
+ * stop_machine actually gets called. This can be used by subsystems that
+ * need a non failing stop_machine infrastructure.
+ */
+int stop_machine_create(void);
+
+/**
+ * stop_machine_destroy: destroy all stop_machine threads
+ *
+ * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads which were created with
+ * stop_machine_create to be destroyed again.
+ */
+void stop_machine_destroy(void);
+
 #else
 
 static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
@@ -46,5 +64,9 @@ static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
         local_irq_enable();
         return ret;
 }
+
+static inline int stop_machine_create(void) { return 0; }
+static inline void stop_machine_destroy(void) { }
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 #endif /* _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE */