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authorBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>2012-05-31 16:26:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-31 17:49:28 -0700
commit785042f2e275089e22c36b462f6495ce8d91732d (patch)
tree4e847408b4e675c7c616d357ae9b330f7104fbc0 /include
parent81ab6e7b26b453a795d46f2616ed0e31d97f05b9 (diff)
downloadlinux-785042f2e275089e22c36b462f6495ce8d91732d.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kmod.h30
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index f07f9a4e10ff..5398d5807075 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -66,36 +66,10 @@ struct subprocess_info {
 	void *data;
 };
 
-/* Allocate a subprocess_info structure */
-struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
-						  char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask);
-
-/* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */
-void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
-		    int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new),
-		    void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
-		    void *data);
-
-/* Actually execute the sub-process */
-int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, int wait);
-
-static inline int
+extern int
 call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait,
 			int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new),
-			void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data)
-{
-	struct subprocess_info *info;
-	gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
-
-	info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
-
-	if (info == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, init, cleanup, data);
-
-	return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
-}
+			void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data);
 
 static inline int
 call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait)