Re: x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()

From: Hutter, Tony
Date: Thu Jan 10 2019 - 12:42:41 EST

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> But since when did out-of-tree modules use __kernel_fpu_begin? It's an
> x86-only thing, and shouldn't really be used by anyone, right?

ZFS on Linux uses it for checksums. Its removal is currently breaking ZFS builds against 5.0:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8259#issuecomment-452902510

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