linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 13/16] percpu: Remove PER_CPU_FIRST

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Message-ID: <20241105155801.1779119-14-brgerst@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  5 Nov 2024 10:57:58 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 13/16] percpu: Remove PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION

x86-64 was the last user.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |  1 -
 include/linux/percpu-defs.h       | 12 ------------
 2 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index eeadbaeccf88..70830a742095 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -1034,7 +1034,6 @@
  */
 #define PERCPU_INPUT(cacheline)						\
 	__per_cpu_start = .;						\
-	*(.data..percpu..first)						\
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);						\
 	*(.data..percpu..page_aligned)					\
 	. = ALIGN(cacheline);						\
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
index 8efce7414fad..a28fa362d685 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h
@@ -26,13 +26,11 @@
 #define PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION "..shared_aligned"
 #define PER_CPU_ALIGNED_SECTION "..shared_aligned"
 #endif
-#define PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION "..first"
 
 #else
 
 #define PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION ""
 #define PER_CPU_ALIGNED_SECTION "..shared_aligned"
-#define PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION ""
 
 #endif
 
@@ -114,16 +112,6 @@
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)					\
 	DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "")
 
-/*
- * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must come first in
- * the set of variables.
- */
-#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_FIRST(type, name)				\
-	DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION)
-
-#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_FIRST(type, name)				\
-	DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_FIRST_SECTION)
-
 /*
  * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be cacheline
  * aligned under SMP conditions so that, whilst a particular instance of the
-- 
2.47.0