[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 970284f571a6..6312758393b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -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);