x86: split ret_from_fork

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

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 7162e9c1f598..6947ec968bf8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -299,44 +299,6 @@ sys_clone(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long newsp,
 }
 
 /*
- * This gets run with %si containing the
- * function to call, and %di containing
- * the "args".
- */
-extern void kernel_thread_helper(void);
-
-/*
- * Create a kernel thread
- */
-int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
-{
-        struct pt_regs regs;
-
-        memset(&regs, 0, sizeof(regs));
-
-        regs.si = (unsigned long) fn;
-        regs.di = (unsigned long) arg;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-        regs.ds = __USER_DS;
-        regs.es = __USER_DS;
-        regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
-        regs.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
-#else
-        regs.ss = __KERNEL_DS;
-#endif
-
-        regs.orig_ax = -1;
-        regs.ip = (unsigned long) kernel_thread_helper;
-        regs.cs = __KERNEL_CS | get_kernel_rpl();
-        regs.flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_EFLAGS_BIT1;
-
-        /* Ok, create the new process.. */
-        return do_fork(flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED, 0, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
-
-/*
  * sys_execve() executes a new program.
  */
 long sys_execve(const char __user *name,