Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:24:25 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | mtrr/state.c unused? |
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It looks like <arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/state.c> is not used by anything in the kernel.
Besides cleanups, the only relevant patch in the git history is:
commit 2ec1df4130c60d1eb49dc0fa0ed15858fede6b05 Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Thu Oct 11 11:16:28 2007 +0200
i386: move kernel/cpu/mtrr
which adds it. Hmm...
A
git log -i --pickaxe-all -Sset_mtrr_prepare_save
for example, shows that
commit 9a6b344ea967efa0bb5ca4cb5405f840652b66c4 Author: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Date: Mon Feb 4 16:48:01 2008 +0100
x86: remove long dead cyrix mtrr code
has removed the last callers of those helpers and they're now unused. They should go if we don't need them anymore.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
-- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating Systems Research Center
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