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[09/13] parisc: Remove useless altinstructions code copied from x86.

Message ID 1253629347-23119-10-git-send-email-tabbott@ksplice.com (mailing list archive)
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Tim Abbott Sept. 22, 2009, 2:22 p.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
 arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |   25 -------------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Comments

kyle mcmartin Sept. 23, 2009, 7:55 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:22:23AM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Heh, I had a patch to use this, but I guess I never finished it, (to nop
out some cache flushes and syncs on coherent architectures in the iommu
code.) I'll add a hunk to bring it back if/when I ever submit that
change.

cheers, Kyle
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 3fd66d9..775be27 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -135,31 +135,6 @@  SECTIONS
 	INIT_TEXT_SECTION(16384)
 	INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
 
-	/* alternate instruction replacement.  This is a mechanism x86 uses
-	 * to detect the CPU type and replace generic instruction sequences
-	 * with CPU specific ones.  We don't currently do this in PA, but
-	 * it seems like a good idea...
-	 */
-	. = ALIGN(4);
-	.altinstructions : {
-		__alt_instructions = .;
-		*(.altinstructions)
-		__alt_instructions_end = .; 
-	} 
-	.altinstr_replacement : {
-		*(.altinstr_replacement)
-	} 
-
-	/* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with references
-	 *  from .altinstructions and .eh_frame
-	 */
-	.exit.text : {
-		EXIT_TEXT
-	}
-	.exit.data : {
-		EXIT_DATA
-	}
-
 	PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__init_end = .;