This is used in an assertion only, which is somewhat dubious to begin with and won't surivive the x86-S work (where TR will become be a NUL selector).
Delete it now. This avoids many cases where as a global symbol, it shadows local string variables. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> --- CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> CC: Wei Liu <w...@xen.org> CC: Roberto Bagnara <roberto.bagn...@bugseng.com> CC: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetr...@bugseng.com> --- xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c | 2 -- xen/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 9 --------- 2 files changed, 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c index 56cb2f61bb75..4d29ad3bc36a 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c @@ -1614,8 +1614,6 @@ static int _svm_cpu_up(bool bsp) /* Initialize OSVW bits to be used by guests */ svm_host_osvw_init(); - /* Minimal checking that enough CPU setup was done by now. */ - ASSERT(str() == TSS_SELECTOR); svm_vmsave_pa(per_cpu(host_vmcb, cpu)); return 0; diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h b/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h index 225a864c483e..a1e0807d97ed 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h +++ b/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h @@ -238,15 +238,6 @@ static inline void ltr(unsigned int sel) __asm__ __volatile__ ( "ltr %w0" :: "rm" (sel) : "memory" ); } -static inline unsigned int str(void) -{ - unsigned int sel; - - __asm__ ( "str %0" : "=r" (sel) ); - - return sel; -} - #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __ARCH_DESC_H */ -- 2.30.2