The patch titled Subject: drivers core: remove assert_held_device_hotplug() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers core: remove assert_held_device_hotplug() The last caller of assert_held_device_hotplug() is gone, so remove it again. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314125226.16779-3-heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/core.c | 5 ----- include/linux/device.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/base/core.c~drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug drivers/base/core.c --- a/drivers/base/core.c~drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug +++ a/drivers/base/core.c @@ -639,11 +639,6 @@ int lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(void) return restart_syscall(); } -void assert_held_device_hotplug(void) -{ - lockdep_assert_held(&device_hotplug_lock); -} - #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK static inline int device_is_not_partition(struct device *dev) { diff -puN include/linux/device.h~drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug include/linux/device.h --- a/include/linux/device.h~drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug +++ a/include/linux/device.h @@ -1140,7 +1140,6 @@ static inline bool device_supports_offli extern void lock_device_hotplug(void); extern void unlock_device_hotplug(void); extern int lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(void); -void assert_held_device_hotplug(void); extern int device_offline(struct device *dev); extern int device_online(struct device *dev); extern void set_primary_fwnode(struct device *dev, struct fwnode_handle *fwnode); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-add-private-lock-to-serialize-memory-hotplug-operations.patch drivers-core-remove-assert_held_device_hotplug.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