linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 3/8] arm64: thread

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Message-Id: <1473947349-14521-4-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:49:04 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        catalin.marinas@....com, james.morse@....com,
        keescook@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, luto@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, takahiro.akashi@...aro.org,
        will.deacon@....com, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/8] arm64: thread_info remove stale items

We have a comment claiming __switch_to() cares about where cpu_context
is located relative to cpu_domain in thread_info. However arm64 has
never had a thread_info::cpu_domain field, and neither __switch_to nor
cpu_switch_to care where the cpu_context field is relative to others.

Additionally, the init_thread_info alias is never used anywhere in the
kernel, and will shortly become problematic when thread_info is moved
into task_struct.

This patch removes both.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
index abd64bd..796af24 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ typedef unsigned long mm_segment_t;
 
 /*
  * low level task data that entry.S needs immediate access to.
- * __switch_to() assumes cpu_context follows immediately after cpu_domain.
  */
 struct thread_info {
 	unsigned long		flags;		/* low level flags */
@@ -60,7 +59,6 @@ struct thread_info {
 	.addr_limit	= KERNEL_DS,					\
 }
 
-#define init_thread_info	(init_thread_union.thread_info)
 #define init_stack		(init_thread_union.stack)
 
 /*
-- 
1.9.1