Re: [2.6 patch] blackfin: remove dump_thread()

From: Bryan Wu
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 22:07:24 EST


On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch removes the unused dump_thread().
>

Why only remove it from Blackfin? any more reason?
I found this in latest 2.6.24-rc2:

--
Cscope tag: dump_thread
# line filename / context / line
1 324 arch/alpha/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
dump_thread(struct pt_regs * pt, struct user * dump)
2 373 arch/arm/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
3 244 arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *dump)
4 321 arch/m68k/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
5 572 arch/sparc/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
6 731 arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
7 306 arch/um/kernel/process.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *u)
8 519 arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c <<dump_thread>>
void dump_thread(struct pt_regs * regs, struct user * dump)
--

Regards,
-Bryan

> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_ksyms.c | 1
> arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c | 45 -----------------------------
> include/asm-blackfin/bfin-global.h | 1
> 3 files changed, 47 deletions(-)
>
> c7746b10ac98a3166a7257f7117dd125e5ba4c7b
> diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_ksyms.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_ksyms.c
> index 2198afe..99ea57c 100644
> --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_ksyms.c
> +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_ksyms.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ioremap);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcmp);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncmp);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_thread);
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_fast_csum);
>
> diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c
> index 9124467..1a8cf33 100644
> --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c
> @@ -239,51 +239,6 @@ copy_thread(int nr, unsigned long clone_flags,
> }
>
> /*
> - * fill in the user structure for a core dump..
> - */
> -void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *dump)
> -{
> - dump->magic = CMAGIC;
> - dump->start_code = 0;
> - dump->start_stack = rdusp() & ~(PAGE_SIZE - 1);
> - dump->u_tsize = ((unsigned long)current->mm->end_code) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> - dump->u_dsize = ((unsigned long)(current->mm->brk +
> - (PAGE_SIZE - 1))) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> - dump->u_dsize -= dump->u_tsize;
> - dump->u_ssize = 0;
> -
> - if (dump->start_stack < TASK_SIZE)
> - dump->u_ssize =
> - ((unsigned long)(TASK_SIZE -
> - dump->start_stack)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -
> - dump->u_ar0 = (struct user_regs_struct *)((int)&dump->regs - (int)dump);
> -
> - dump->regs.r0 = regs->r0;
> - dump->regs.r1 = regs->r1;
> - dump->regs.r2 = regs->r2;
> - dump->regs.r3 = regs->r3;
> - dump->regs.r4 = regs->r4;
> - dump->regs.r5 = regs->r5;
> - dump->regs.r6 = regs->r6;
> - dump->regs.r7 = regs->r7;
> - dump->regs.p0 = regs->p0;
> - dump->regs.p1 = regs->p1;
> - dump->regs.p2 = regs->p2;
> - dump->regs.p3 = regs->p3;
> - dump->regs.p4 = regs->p4;
> - dump->regs.p5 = regs->p5;
> - dump->regs.orig_p0 = regs->orig_p0;
> - dump->regs.a0w = regs->a0w;
> - dump->regs.a1w = regs->a1w;
> - dump->regs.a0x = regs->a0x;
> - dump->regs.a1x = regs->a1x;
> - dump->regs.rets = regs->rets;
> - dump->regs.astat = regs->astat;
> - dump->regs.pc = regs->pc;
> -}
> -
> -/*
> * sys_execve() executes a new program.
> */
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-blackfin/bfin-global.h b/include/asm-blackfin/bfin-global.h
> index 0212e18..cd924bb 100644
> --- a/include/asm-blackfin/bfin-global.h
> +++ b/include/asm-blackfin/bfin-global.h
> @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ extern unsigned long get_sclk(void);
> extern unsigned long sclk_to_usecs(unsigned long sclk);
> extern unsigned long usecs_to_sclk(unsigned long usecs);
>
> -extern void dump_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, struct user *dump);
> extern void dump_bfin_regs(struct pt_regs *fp, void *retaddr);
> extern void dump_bfin_trace_buffer(void);
>
>
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