[2.6 patch] kernel/rcupdate.c: kill synchronize_kernel()

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Mon Apr 10 2006 - 23:51:37 EST


synchronize_kernel() is both deprecated and completely unused.

Let's kill this bloat.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>

---

Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 1 -
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 1 -
kernel/rcupdate.c | 9 ---------
3 files changed, 11 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2-full/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt.old 2006-04-11 01:23:39.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2-full/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt 2006-04-11 01:23:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -790,7 +790,6 @@

RCU grace period:

- synchronize_kernel (deprecated)
synchronize_net
synchronize_sched
synchronize_rcu
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2-full/include/linux/rcupdate.h.old 2006-04-11 01:23:53.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2-full/include/linux/rcupdate.h 2006-04-11 01:24:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@
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);
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2-full/kernel/rcupdate.c.old 2006-04-11 01:24:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2-full/kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-04-11 01:24:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -593,14 +593,6 @@
wait_for_completion(&rcu.completion);
}

-/*
- * Deprecated, use synchronize_rcu() or synchronize_sched() instead.
- */
-void synchronize_kernel(void)
-{
- synchronize_rcu();
-}
-
module_param(blimit, int, 0);
module_param(qhimark, int, 0);
module_param(qlowmark, int, 0);
@@ -611,4 +603,3 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(call_rcu); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(call_rcu_bh); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(synchronize_kernel); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */

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