The patch titled sysctl extern cleanup: rcu has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sysctl extern cleanup: rcu From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be move to their own head file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move rcutorture_runnable extern declaration to linux/rcupdate.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 4 ++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/rcupdate.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu include/linux/rcupdate.h --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h~sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu +++ a/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ #include <linux/lockdep.h> #include <linux/completion.h> +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST +extern int rcutorture_runnable; /* for sysctl */ +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */ + /** * struct rcu_head - callback structure for use with RCU * @next: next update requests in a list diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -79,9 +79,6 @@ /* External variables not in a header file. */ extern int max_threads; -#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST -extern int rcutorture_runnable; -#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */ #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK extern int blk_iopoll_enabled; #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-c_a_d.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-binfmts.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-mm.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-compat.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-latencytop.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-file-nr.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-block-iopoll.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-module.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-acct.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-rtmutex.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-lockdep.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-poll.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-inotify.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