Merge tag 'v4.17-rc4' into patchwork

Linux 4.17-rc4

* tag 'v4.17-rc4': (920 commits)
  Linux 4.17-rc4
  KVM: x86: remove APIC Timer periodic/oneshot spikes
  genksyms: fix typo in parse.tab.{c,h} generation rules
  kbuild: replace hardcoded bison in cmd_bison_h with $(YACC)
  gcc-plugins: fix build condition of SANCOV plugin
  MAINTAINERS: Update Kbuild entry with a few paths
  Revert "usb: host: ehci: Use dma_pool_zalloc()"
  platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.
  platform/x86: asus-wireless: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  arm64: vgic-v2: Fix proxying of cpuif access
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic_init: Cleanup reference to process_maintenance
  KVM: arm64: Fix order of vcpu_write_sys_reg() arguments
  MAINTAINERS & files: Canonize the e-mails I use at files
  media: imx-media-csi: Fix inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
  tools: power/acpi, revert to LD = gcc
  bdi: Fix oops in wb_workfn()
  RDMA/cma: Do not query GID during QP state transition to RTR
  IB/mlx4: Fix integer overflow when calculating optimal MTT size
  IB/hfi1: Fix memory leak in exception path in get_irq_affinity()
  IB/{hfi1, rdmavt}: Fix memory leak in hfi1_alloc_devdata() upon failure
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
index de470caf0784..fc222a0c2ac4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
@@ -82,19 +82,6 @@ static const struct file_operations memtrace_fops = {
 	.open	= simple_open,
 };
 
-static void flush_memory_region(u64 base, u64 size)
-{
-	unsigned long line_size = ppc64_caches.l1d.size;
-	u64 end = base + size;
-	u64 addr;
-
-	base = round_down(base, line_size);
-	end = round_up(end, line_size);
-
-	for (addr = base; addr < end; addr += line_size)
-		asm volatile("dcbf 0,%0" : "=r" (addr) :: "memory");
-}
-
 static int check_memblock_online(struct memory_block *mem, void *arg)
 {
 	if (mem->state != MEM_ONLINE)
@@ -132,10 +119,6 @@ static bool memtrace_offline_pages(u32 nid, u64 start_pfn, u64 nr_pages)
 	walk_memory_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, (void *)MEM_OFFLINE,
 			  change_memblock_state);
 
-	/* RCU grace period? */
-	flush_memory_region((u64)__va(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT),
-			    nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
-
 	lock_device_hotplug();
 	remove_memory(nid, start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
 	unlock_device_hotplug();