Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752392AbbGQRnN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:43:13 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:40788 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751205AbbGQRnL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:43:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1437154979.1657.23.camel@infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: remove dead code From: Geoff Levand To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Mark Salter , Takahiro Akashi , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:42:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <1437069533-22103-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.10-0ubuntu1~14.10.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1017 Lines: 26 Hi, On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 08:50 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On 16 July 2015 at 19:58, Mark Salter 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. The whole CPU reset support that kexec was using was removed. I started on reimplementing a new cpu_reset() routine (in my master branch at [1]), but I can only work on it when I have some extra time, and these days that is not very often. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/linux-kexec.git/ -Geoff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/