linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] virt: ack_flush() function removed for lack of apparent use 2.6.37-rc1

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Message-ID: <4CD95B93.70607@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:32:51 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	andre@...soft.com.br
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] virt: ack_flush() function removed for lack of apparent
 use 2.6.37-rc1

On 11/06/2010 07:01 AM, André Luis Pereira dos Santos - BSRSoft wrote:
> Hello
>
> Ack_flush function () is not used anywhere in the code and apparently has no function currently defined.
>
> Unless there are plans to use it in the future, I took it out via this patch code for readability.
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Luis Pereira dos Santos<andre@...soft.com.br>
> ---
> Signed-off-by: Andre Luis Pereira dos Santos<andre@...soft.com.br>
> --- linux-2.6.37-rc1/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c	2010-11-01 09:54:12.000000000 -0200
> +++ linux-2.6.37-rc1-patched/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c	2010-11-06 02:43:56.000000000 -0200
> @@ -132,9 +132,6 @@ void vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>   	mutex_unlock(&vcpu->mutex);
>   }
>
> -static void ack_flush(void *_completed)
> -{
> -}
>

It is in use:
> upstream:virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:static void ack_flush(void *_completed)
> upstream:virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:           
> smp_call_function_many(cpu_online_mask, ack_flush, NULL, 1);
> upstream:virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:           smp_call_function_many(cpus, 
> ack_flush, NULL, 1);


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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