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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2016 17:30:07 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: make rcu/tiny_plugin.h explicitly non-modular

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 07:05:19PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> init/Kconfig:config TINY_RCU
> init/Kconfig:   bool
> 
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the code there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> 
> Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
> case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit.  We could
> consider moving this to an earlier initcall (subsys?) if desired.
> 
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
> 
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Queued for review and testing, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h | 15 ++-------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h
> index e492a5253e0f..196f0302e2f4 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>   */
> 
>  #include <linux/kthread.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
>  #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> 
> @@ -122,18 +122,7 @@ free_out:
>  	debugfs_remove_recursive(rcudir);
>  	return 1;
>  }
> -
> -static void __exit rcutiny_trace_cleanup(void)
> -{
> -	debugfs_remove_recursive(rcudir);
> -}
> -
> -module_init(rcutiny_trace_init);
> -module_exit(rcutiny_trace_cleanup);
> -
> -MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul E. McKenney");
> -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Read-Copy Update tracing for tiny implementation");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +device_initcall(rcutiny_trace_init);
> 
>  static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp)
>  {
> -- 
> 2.6.1
>