Re: [PATCH] Cleanup __pvclock_read_cycles to remove useless variables

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 02:53:14PM +0800, Minfei Huang wrote:
> The value of cycles and flags can be assigned directly without
> intermediate variables.
> 
> Remove the useless variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h | 15 ++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
> index fdcc040..fb95dac 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h
> @@ -80,19 +80,12 @@ static __always_inline
>  unsigned __pvclock_read_cycles(const struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src,
>  			       cycle_t *cycles, u8 *flags)
>  {
> -	unsigned version;
> -	cycle_t ret, offset;
> -	u8 ret_flags;
> -
> -	version = src->version;
> +	cycle_t offset;
>  
>  	offset = pvclock_get_nsec_offset(src);

You could go a step further and get rid of that
pvclock_get_nsec_offset() simple wrapper too and move its meat into
__pvclock_read_cycles()...

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    Boris.

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