The patch titled put a comment at register_die_notifier that the export is used has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is put-a-comment-at-register_die_notifier-that-the-export-is-used.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: put a comment at register_die_notifier that the export is used From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> {un}register_die_notifier() is used by kdb... document this so that future "remove dead export" rounds can skip this export. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~put-a-comment-at-register_die_notifier-that-the-export-is-used arch/i386/kernel/traps.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~put-a-comment-at-register_die_notifier-that-the-export-is-used +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c @@ -100,13 +100,13 @@ int register_die_notifier(struct notifie vmalloc_sync_all(); return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&i386die_chain, nb); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); /* used modular by kdb */ int unregister_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&i386die_chain, nb); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); /* used modular by kdb */ static inline int valid_stack_ptr(struct thread_info *tinfo, void *p) { diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c~put-a-comment-at-register_die_notifier-that-the-export-is-used arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c~put-a-comment-at-register_die_notifier-that-the-export-is-used +++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ int register_die_notifier(struct notifie vmalloc_sync_all(); return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&die_chain, nb); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier); /* used modular by kdb */ int unregister_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&die_chain, nb); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_die_notifier); /* used modular by kdb */ static inline void conditional_sti(struct pt_regs *regs) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch put-a-comment-at-register_die_notifier-that-the-export-is-used.patch debug-shared-irqs.patch vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch vdso-improve-print_fatal_signals-support-by-adding-memory-maps.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html