linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu] Remove unused code originally used for context tracking

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:19:22 +0800
From:	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Gilad.Ben-Yossef.gilad@...yossef.com
Subject: [PATCH rcu] Remove unused code originally used for context tracking

As new context tracking subsystem added, it seems ignore_user_qs and
in_user defined in struct rcu_dynticks are no longer needed, so remove
them. 

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcutree.c | 3 ---
 kernel/rcutree.h | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index e441b77..b8fae5d 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -2719,9 +2719,6 @@ rcu_boot_init_percpu_data(int cpu, struct rcu_state *rsp)
 	rdp->dynticks = &per_cpu(rcu_dynticks, cpu);
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(rdp->dynticks->dynticks_nesting != DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE);
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&rdp->dynticks->dynticks) != 1);
-#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(rdp->dynticks->in_user);
-#endif
 	rdp->cpu = cpu;
 	rdp->rsp = rsp;
 	rcu_boot_init_nocb_percpu_data(rdp);
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index 4b69291..6f21f2e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -102,10 +102,6 @@ struct rcu_dynticks {
 				    /* idle-period nonlazy_posted snapshot. */
 	int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */
-#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
-	bool ignore_user_qs;	    /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */
-	bool in_user;		    /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */
-#endif
 };
 
 /* RCU's kthread states for tracing. */
-- 
1.7.11.4


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