[PATCH] arm64: paravirt: remove conduit check in has_pv_steal_clock

Usama Arif usama.arif at bytedance.com
Thu Nov 3 23:16:59 PDT 2022


arm_smccc_1_1_invoke() which is called later on in the function
will return failure if there's no conduit (or pre-SMCCC 1.1),
hence the check is unnecessary.

Suggested-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif at bytedance.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c
index 57c7c211f8c7..aa718d6a9274 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -141,10 +141,6 @@ static bool __init has_pv_steal_clock(void)
 {
 	struct arm_smccc_res res;
 
-	/* To detect the presence of PV time support we require SMCCC 1.1+ */
-	if (arm_smccc_1_1_get_conduit() == SMCCC_CONDUIT_NONE)
-		return false;
-
 	arm_smccc_1_1_invoke(ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID,
 			     ARM_SMCCC_HV_PV_TIME_FEATURES, &res);
 
-- 
2.25.1




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