linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/5] riscv: drop cpufeature_apply

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Message-Id: <20220526205646.258337-2-heiko@sntech.de>
Date:   Thu, 26 May 2022 22:56:42 +0200
From:   Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:     palmer@...belt.com, paul.walmsley@...ive.com
Cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        wefu@...hat.com, guoren@...nel.org, mick@....forth.gr,
        samuel@...lland.org, cmuellner@...ux.com, philipp.tomsich@...ll.eu,
        hch@....de, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/5] riscv: drop cpufeature_apply_feature tracking variable

The variable was tracking which feature patches got applied
but that information was never actually used - and thus resulted
in a warning as well.

Drop the variable.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
index dea3ea19deee..b33564df81e1 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -294,7 +294,6 @@ void __init_or_module riscv_cpufeature_patch_func(struct alt_entry *begin,
 						  unsigned int stage)
 {
 	u32 cpu_req_feature = cpufeature_probe(stage);
-	u32 cpu_apply_feature = 0;
 	struct alt_entry *alt;
 	u32 tmp;
 
@@ -308,10 +307,8 @@ void __init_or_module riscv_cpufeature_patch_func(struct alt_entry *begin,
 		}
 
 		tmp = (1U << alt->errata_id);
-		if (cpu_req_feature & tmp) {
+		if (cpu_req_feature & tmp)
 			patch_text_nosync(alt->old_ptr, alt->alt_ptr, alt->alt_len);
-			cpu_apply_feature |= tmp;
-		}
 	}
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.35.1