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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:42:59 -0700 From: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org> To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>, Takahiro Akashi <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: remove dead code Hi, On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 08:50 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On 16 July 2015 at 19:58, Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com> 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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