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kmod: move call_usermodehelper_fns() to .c file and unexport all it's helpers
authorBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Thu, 31 May 2012 23:26:15 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:49:28 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
commit9fb7c9c332547ac2235789d76368beae7384eefa
tree4e847408b4e675c7c616d357ae9b330f7104fbc0
parentbeed6820630769ff9988997dafdf742bdab8a635
kmod: move call_usermodehelper_fns() to .c file and unexport all it's helpers

If we move call_usermodehelper_fns() to kmod.c file and EXPORT_SYMBOL it
we can avoid exporting all it's helper functions:
call_usermodehelper_setup
call_usermodehelper_setfns
call_usermodehelper_exec
And make all of them static to kmod.c

Since the optimizer will see all these as a single call site it will
inline them inside call_usermodehelper_fns().  So we loose the call to
_fns but gain 3 calls to the helpers.  (Not that it matters)

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/kmod.h
kernel/kmod.c