[tip:x86/idle] x86/idle: Remove is_idle flag

From: tip-bot for Len Brown
Date: Fri Nov 18 2016 - 06:22:38 EST


Commit-ID: f08b5fe2d4eeb0a8a6e0e7e71928cf2c7b1b791d
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f08b5fe2d4eeb0a8a6e0e7e71928cf2c7b1b791d
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:23:19 -0500
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:07:57 +0100

x86/idle: Remove is_idle flag

Upon removal of the idle_notifier, all accesses to the "is_idle" flag serve
no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4a24197cf9c227fcd1ca2df09999eaec9052f49.1479449716.git.len.brown@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index f519507..d8e9d79 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = {
};
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tss);

-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned char, is_idle);
-#endif
-
/*
* this gets called so that we can store lazy state into memory and copy the
* current task into the new thread.
@@ -241,13 +237,10 @@ static inline void play_dead(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
void enter_idle(void)
{
- this_cpu_write(is_idle, 1);
}

static void __exit_idle(void)
{
- if (x86_test_and_clear_bit_percpu(0, is_idle) == 0)
- return;
}

/* Called from interrupts to signify idle end */