[PATCH 01/10] arm64: thread_info remove stale items

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Oct 19 12:10:25 PDT 2016


We have a comment claiming __switch_to() cares about where cpu_context
is located relative to cpu_domain in thread_info. However arm64 has
never had a thread_info::cpu_domain field, and neither __switch_to nor
cpu_switch_to care where the cpu_context field is relative to others.

Additionally, the init_thread_info alias is never used anywhere in the
kernel, and will shortly become problematic when thread_info is moved
into task_struct.

This patch removes both.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
index e9ea5a6..76a9559 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 
 /*
  * low level task data that entry.S needs immediate access to.
- * __switch_to() assumes cpu_context follows immediately after cpu_domain.
  */
 struct thread_info {
 	unsigned long		flags;		/* low level flags */
@@ -60,7 +59,6 @@ struct thread_info {
 	.addr_limit	= KERNEL_DS,					\
 }
 
-#define init_thread_info	(init_thread_union.thread_info)
 #define init_stack		(init_thread_union.stack)
 
 /*
-- 
1.9.1




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