linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Code cleanup for __hash_page

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:26:24 +0800
From: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
To: mpe@...erman.id.au,
	npiggin@...il.com,
	christophe.leroy@...roup.eu,
	aneesh.kumar@...nel.org,
	naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Code cleanup for __hash_page_thp

This part was commented from commit 6d492ecc6489
("powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for hugepages")
in about 11 years before.

If there are no plans to enable this part code in the future,
we can remove this dead code.

Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_hugepage.c | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_hugepage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_hugepage.c
index c0fabe6c5a12..127a3a2c174b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_hugepage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_hugepage.c
@@ -59,16 +59,6 @@ int __hash_page_thp(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long vsid,
 
 	rflags = htab_convert_pte_flags(new_pmd, flags);
 
-#if 0
-	if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE)) {
-
-		/*
-		 * No CPU has hugepages but lacks no execute, so we
-		 * don't need to worry about that case
-		 */
-		rflags = hash_page_do_lazy_icache(rflags, __pte(old_pte), trap);
-	}
-#endif
 	/*
 	 * Find the slot index details for this ea, using base page size.
 	 */
-- 
2.39.2