linux-kernel - Re: mtrr/state.c unused?

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Message-ID: <20100204082428.GA21938@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:24:28 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: mtrr/state.c unused?


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> wrote:

> It looks like <arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/state.c> is not used by
> anything in the kernel.

Good catch - i dont see it used either. Mind sending a patch?

> 
> Besides cleanups, the only relevant patch in the git history is:
> 
> commit 2ec1df4130c60d1eb49dc0fa0ed15858fede6b05
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Date:   Thu Oct 11 11:16:28 2007 +0200
> 
>     i386: move kernel/cpu/mtrr
> 
> 
> which adds it. Hmm...

Might be a dead code artifact from the original unification.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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