The patch titled Subject: mm: no need to export mm_kobj has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-no-need-to-export-mm_kobj.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-no-need-to-export-mm_kobj.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: no need to export mm_kobj Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 08:43:37 +0200 There are no modules using mm_kobj, so do not export it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2023080436-algebra-cabana-417d@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mm_init.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-no-need-to-export-mm_kobj +++ a/mm/mm_init.c @@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ early_param("mminit_loglevel", set_mmini #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT */ struct kobject *mm_kobj; -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mm_kobj); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP s32 vm_committed_as_batch = 32; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-no-need-to-export-mm_kobj.patch kthread-unexport-__kthread_should_park.patch