Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/5] x86: boot/copy, remove unused functions | Date | Wed, 31 May 2017 10:12:39 +0200 |
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copy_from_gs and copy_to_gs are unused in the boot code. They have actually never been used -- they were always commented out since their addition in 5be865661516 ("String-handling functions for the new x86 setup code.") in 2007. So remove them -- they can be restored from history if need be.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org --- arch/x86/boot/copy.S | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/copy.S b/arch/x86/boot/copy.S index 1eb7d298b47d..15d9f74b0008 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/copy.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/copy.S @@ -65,23 +65,3 @@ GLOBAL(copy_to_fs) popw %es retl ENDPROC(copy_to_fs) - -#if 0 /* Not currently used, but can be enabled as needed */ -GLOBAL(copy_from_gs) - pushw %ds - pushw %gs - popw %ds - calll memcpy - popw %ds - retl -ENDPROC(copy_from_gs) - -GLOBAL(copy_to_gs) - pushw %es - pushw %gs - popw %es - calll memcpy - popw %es - retl -ENDPROC(copy_to_gs) -#endif -- 2.13.0
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