linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch/powerpc: Remove the definition of unused cede function

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 16:51:41 +0530
From: Gautam Menghani <gautam@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Naveen N Rao <naveen@...nel.org>
Cc: mpe@...erman.id.au, npiggin@...il.com, christophe.leroy@...roup.eu,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/powerpc: Remove the definition of unused cede
 function

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 04:20:04PM GMT, Naveen N Rao wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 03:35:03PM GMT, Gautam Menghani wrote:
> > Remove extended_cede_processor() definition as it has no callers since
> > commit 48f6e7f6d948("powerpc/pseries: remove cede offline state for CPUs")
> 
> extended_cede_processor() was added in commit 69ddb57cbea0 
> ("powerpc/pseries: Add extended_cede_processor() helper function."), 
> which also added [get|set]_cede_latency_hint(). Those can also be 
> removed if extended_cede_processor() is no longer needed.

Yes thanks for pointing it out, will remove them as well.

Thanks,
Gautam