+ mm-remove-export-for-get_unmapped_area.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: remove export for get_unmapped_area()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-remove-export-for-get_unmapped_area.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-remove-export-for-get_unmapped_area.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Subject: mm: remove export for get_unmapped_area()
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:16:46 -0700

The mm/mmap.c function get_unmapped_area() is not used from any modules,
so it doesn't need to be exported.  Remove the export.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-5-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/mmap.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-remove-export-for-get_unmapped_area
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1886,8 +1886,6 @@ get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, uns
 	return error ? error : addr;
 }
 
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_unmapped_area);
-
 unsigned long
 mm_get_unmapped_area(struct mm_struct *mm, struct file *file,
 		     unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com are

proc-refactor-pde_get_unmapped_area-as-prep.patch
mm-switch-mm-get_unmapped_area-to-a-flag.patch
mm-introduce-arch_get_unmapped_area_vmflags.patch
mm-remove-export-for-get_unmapped_area.patch
mm-use-get_unmapped_area_vmflags.patch
thp-add-thp_get_unmapped_area_vmflags.patch
csky-use-initializer-for-struct-vm_unmapped_area_info.patch
parisc-use-initializer-for-struct-vm_unmapped_area_info.patch
powerpc-use-initializer-for-struct-vm_unmapped_area_info.patch
treewide-use-initializer-for-struct-vm_unmapped_area_info.patch
mm-take-placement-mappings-gap-into-account.patch
x86-mm-implement-have_arch_unmapped_area_vmflags.patch
x86-mm-care-about-shadow-stack-guard-gap-during-placement.patch
selftests-x86-add-placement-guard-gap-test-for-shstk.patch