linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/e820: make e820_search_gap() static and remove unused variables

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Message-Id: <1482676551-11411-1-git-send-email-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:35:51 +0000
From:   Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To:     yinghai@...nel.org, akataria@...are.com
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, x86@...nel.org,
        hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/e820: make e820_search_gap() static and remove unused variables

e820_search_gap() is just used locally now and the start_addr and end_addr
is fixed. Also gapstart is not checked in this function.

The patch makes e820_search_gap() static and remove those unused variables.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h |  2 --
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c      | 16 +++++-----------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
index 476b574..b95e6de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ extern u64 e820_remove_range(u64 start, u64 size, unsigned old_type,
 			     int checktype);
 extern void update_e820(void);
 extern void e820_setup_gap(void);
-extern int e820_search_gap(unsigned long *gapstart, unsigned long *gapsize,
-			unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long long end_addr);
 struct setup_data;
 extern void parse_e820_ext(u64 phys_addr, u32 data_len);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index f4fb197..1deb18a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -586,24 +586,19 @@ static void __init update_e820_saved(void)
 }
 #define MAX_GAP_END 0x100000000ull
 /*
- * Search for a gap in the e820 memory space from start_addr to end_addr.
+ * Search for a gap in the e820 memory space from 0 to MAX_GAP_END.
  */
-__init int e820_search_gap(unsigned long *gapstart, unsigned long *gapsize,
-		unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long long end_addr)
+static int __init e820_search_gap(unsigned long *gapstart,
+		unsigned long *gapsize)
 {
-	unsigned long long last;
+	unsigned long long last = MAX_GAP_END;
 	int i = e820->nr_map;
 	int found = 0;
 
-	last = (end_addr && end_addr < MAX_GAP_END) ? end_addr : MAX_GAP_END;
-
 	while (--i >= 0) {
 		unsigned long long start = e820->map[i].addr;
 		unsigned long long end = start + e820->map[i].size;
 
-		if (end < start_addr)
-			continue;
-
 		/*
 		 * Since "last" is at most 4GB, we know we'll
 		 * fit in 32 bits if this condition is true
@@ -634,9 +629,8 @@ __init void e820_setup_gap(void)
 	unsigned long gapstart, gapsize;
 	int found;
 
-	gapstart = 0x10000000;
 	gapsize = 0x400000;
-	found  = e820_search_gap(&gapstart, &gapsize, 0, MAX_GAP_END);
+	found  = e820_search_gap(&gapstart, &gapsize);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	if (!found) {
-- 
2.5.0