[PATCH] arm64: remove dead code

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Fri Jul 17 02:46:28 PDT 2015


On 17 July 2015 at 11:45, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:50:30AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> (use Geoff's correct email address)
>>
>> On 17 July 2015 at 08:49, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
>> > (adding Geoff and Takahiro)
>> >
>> > On 16 July 2015 at 19:58, Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> Commit 68234df4ea79 ("arm64: kill flush_cache_all()") removed
>> >> soft_reset() from the kernel. This was the only caller of
>> >> setup_mm_for_reboot(), so remove that also.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I am wondering if setup_mm_for_reboot() is being used in the kexec
>> > patches. Perhaps we should check that before removing it.
>
> Well, given that I can't see any kexec patches on the radar for 4.3, I'm
> happy to merge this clean-up and Geoff can reintroduce the function in
> his series if he needs it.
>

OK, fair enough



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