linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/boot change for v4.4

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Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2015 11:45:19 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/boot change for v4.4

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-boot-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-boot-for-linus

   # HEAD: e9c40d257fdd58c5cc97d3fe3aa141dd23ee5e9d x86/kexec: Remove obsolete 'in_crash_kexec' flag

A single commit: remove an obsolete kcrash boot flag.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Minfei Huang (1):
      x86/kexec: Remove obsolete 'in_crash_kexec' flag


 arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h | 6 ------
 arch/x86/kernel/crash.c       | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h
index b130d59406fb..e5f5dc9787d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h
@@ -29,11 +29,5 @@ extern void show_trace(struct task_struct *t, struct pt_regs *regs,
 extern void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, int all);
 extern unsigned long oops_begin(void);
 extern void oops_end(unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, int signr);
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
-extern int in_crash_kexec;
-#else
-/* no crash dump is ever in progress if no crash kernel can be kexec'd */
-#define in_crash_kexec 0
-#endif
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_KDEBUG_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 74ca2fe7a0b3..2c1910f6717e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ struct crash_memmap_data {
 	unsigned int type;
 };
 
-int in_crash_kexec;
-
 /*
  * This is used to VMCLEAR all VMCSs loaded on the
  * processor. And when loading kvm_intel module, the
@@ -132,7 +130,6 @@ static void kdump_nmi_callback(int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 static void kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus(void)
 {
-	in_crash_kexec = 1;
 	nmi_shootdown_cpus(kdump_nmi_callback);
 
 	disable_local_APIC();
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