[PATCH 02/14] arm64/fpsimd: Remove unused fpsimd_force_sync_to_sve()

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Apr 4 10:44:23 PDT 2025


There have been no users of fpsimd_force_sync_to_sve() since commit:

  bbc6172eefdb276b ("arm64/fpsimd: SME no longer requires SVE register state")

Remove fpsimd_force_sync_to_sve().

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 14 --------------
 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 1ee5f330b8ed3..1391a491f2226 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -758,20 +758,6 @@ void sve_alloc(struct task_struct *task, bool flush)
 		kzalloc(sve_state_size(task), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
-
-/*
- * Force the FPSIMD state shared with SVE to be updated in the SVE state
- * even if the SVE state is the current active state.
- *
- * This should only be called by ptrace.  task must be non-runnable.
- * task->thread.sve_state must point to at least sve_state_size(task)
- * bytes of allocated kernel memory.
- */
-void fpsimd_force_sync_to_sve(struct task_struct *task)
-{
-	fpsimd_to_sve(task);
-}
-
 /*
  * Ensure that task->thread.sve_state is up to date with respect to
  * the user task, irrespective of when SVE is in use or not.
-- 
2.30.2




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