linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] Drivers: hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in hv.c

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Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:29:18 -0800
From:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	ohering@...e.com
Cc:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Drivers: hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in hv.c

In preparation for eventually supporting kexec in Linux VMs on Hyper-V,
get rid of an unnecessary check in hv_init().

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv.c |    5 -----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv.c b/drivers/hv/hv.c
index f8a77d0..12aa97f 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c
@@ -164,11 +164,6 @@ int hv_init(void)
 
 	max_leaf = query_hypervisor_info();
 
-	rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, hv_context.guestid);
-
-	if (hv_context.guestid != 0)
-		goto cleanup;
-
 	/* Write our OS info */
 	wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, HV_LINUX_GUEST_ID);
 	hv_context.guestid = HV_LINUX_GUEST_ID;
-- 
1.7.4.1

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