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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-09-30 06:23:05 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-15 01:33:53 +0200
commitc4aee363af2a81f9726c5fa13e136ebaf02852bd (patch)
tree665b4ca5312d58e85c10a2c8ef69a98e41700e04 /arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
parentia64: clone() had been unused since 2004 (diff)
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ia64: dead code in copy_thread() since 2004
It used to be called with NULL regs when creating idle threads on secondaries. Not used that way since wli had buried that kludge... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
index 35e106f2ed13..63a77b8b5cfa 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
@@ -401,15 +401,6 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags,
struct pt_regs *child_ptregs;
int retval = 0;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- /*
- * For SMP idle threads, fork_by_hand() calls do_fork with
- * NULL regs.
- */
- if (!regs)
- return 0;
-#endif
-
stack = ((struct switch_stack *) regs) - 1;
child_ptregs = (struct pt_regs *) ((unsigned long) p + IA64_STK_OFFSET) - 1;