linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 20/32] x86/smp: Remove unnecessary initialization of thread

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Message-Id: <94a4be63923478be9972ccf534f6f2cbb19ddbb7.1468270393.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:53:53 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 20/32] x86/smp: Remove unnecessary initialization of thread_info::cpu

It's statically initialized to zero -- no need to dynamically
initialize it to zero as well.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index fafe8b923cac..0e91dbeca2fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,6 @@ void __init native_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	cpumask_copy(cpu_callin_mask, cpumask_of(0));
 	mb();
 
-	current_thread_info()->cpu = 0;  /* needed? */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		zalloc_cpumask_var(&per_cpu(cpu_sibling_map, i), GFP_KERNEL);
 		zalloc_cpumask_var(&per_cpu(cpu_core_map, i), GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.7.4