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[PATCH 3/5] x86: remove is_idle flag

From Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 3/5] x86: remove is_idle flag
Date 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
Message-ID <sEKQp-3ri-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <sEKQp-3ri-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization Intel Open Source Technology Center

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From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Upon removal of the idle_notifier, all accesses to
the "is_idle" flag serve no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index f51950715145..d8e9d794e114 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = {
 };
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tss);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, is_idle);
-#endif
-
 /*
  * this gets called so that we can store lazy state into memory and copy the
  * current task into the new thread.
@@ -241,13 +237,10 @@ static inline void play_dead(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 void enter_idle(void)
 {
-	this_cpu_write(is_idle, 1);
 }
 
 static void __exit_idle(void)
 {
-	if (x86_test_and_clear_bit_percpu(0, is_idle) == 0)
-		return;
 }
 
 /* Called from interrupts to signify idle end */
-- 
2.11.0.rc1

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[PATCH 0/5] x86: remove idle notifier Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4/5] x86: remove x86_test_and_clear_bit_percpu() Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
    [tip:x86/idle] x86: Remove x86_test_and_clear_bit_percpu() tip-bot for Len Brown <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-18 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH 3/5] x86: remove is_idle flag Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
    [tip:x86/idle] x86/idle: Remove is_idle flag tip-bot for Len Brown <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-18 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH 5/5] x86: remove enter_idle(), exit_idle() Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
    [tip:x86/idle] x86/idle: Remove enter_idle(), exit_idle() tip-bot for Len Brown <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-18 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/5] x86: remove idle_notifier Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
    [tip:x86/idle] x86/idle: Remove idle_notifier tip-bot for Len Brown <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-18 12:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/5] i7300_idle: remove this driver Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 07:30 +0100
    [tip:x86/idle] i7300_idle: Remove this driver tip-bot for Len Brown <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-18 12:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: remove idle notifier Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 09:20 +0100

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