ia64: dead code in copy_thread() since 2004

It used to be called with NULL regs when creating idle threads on
secondaries.  Not used that way since wli had buried that kludge...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
index 35e106f2ed13..63a77b8b5cfa 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
@@ -401,15 +401,6 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags,
         struct pt_regs *child_ptregs;
         int retval = 0;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-        /*
-         * For SMP idle threads, fork_by_hand() calls do_fork with
-         * NULL regs.
-         */
-        if (!regs)
-                return 0;
-#endif
-
         stack = ((struct switch_stack *) regs) - 1;
 
         child_ptregs = (struct pt_regs *) ((unsigned long) p + IA64_STK_OFFSET) - 1;