[PATCH] [POWERPC] Remove dead code at KernelAltiVec

Dale Farnsworth dale at farnsworth.org
Fri Feb 1 08:11:41 EST 2008


Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>
---
This code doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S |   17 -----------------
 arch/ppc/kernel/head.S        |   17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
index 0f4fac5..c16d135 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -763,23 +763,6 @@ load_up_altivec:
 	b	fast_exception_return
 
 /*
- * AltiVec unavailable trap from kernel - print a message, but let
- * the task use AltiVec in the kernel until it returns to user mode.
- */
-KernelAltiVec:
-	lwz	r3,_MSR(r1)
-	oris	r3,r3,MSR_VEC at h
-	stw	r3,_MSR(r1)	/* enable use of AltiVec after return */
-	lis	r3,87f at h
-	ori	r3,r3,87f at l
-	mr	r4,r2		/* current */
-	lwz	r5,_NIP(r1)
-	bl	printk
-	b	ret_from_except
-87:	.string	"AltiVec used in kernel  (task=%p, pc=%x)  \n"
-	.align	4,0
-
-/*
  * giveup_altivec(tsk)
  * Disable AltiVec for the task given as the argument,
  * and save the AltiVec registers in its thread_struct.
diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S b/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S
index 1b0ec72..e7e642b 100644
--- a/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S
@@ -701,23 +701,6 @@ load_up_altivec:
 	b	fast_exception_return
 
 /*
- * AltiVec unavailable trap from kernel - print a message, but let
- * the task use AltiVec in the kernel until it returns to user mode.
- */
-KernelAltiVec:
-	lwz	r3,_MSR(r1)
-	oris	r3,r3,MSR_VEC at h
-	stw	r3,_MSR(r1)	/* enable use of AltiVec after return */
-	lis	r3,87f at h
-	ori	r3,r3,87f at l
-	mr	r4,r2		/* current */
-	lwz	r5,_NIP(r1)
-	bl	printk
-	b	ret_from_except
-87:	.string	"AltiVec used in kernel  (task=%p, pc=%x)  \n"
-	.align	4,0
-
-/*
  * giveup_altivec(tsk)
  * Disable AltiVec for the task given as the argument,
  * and save the AltiVec registers in its thread_struct.



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