From 8c1d7f0d4c20a0bb4be662aeba57d20cc9ebfdeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:23:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 340262 b: refs/heads/master c:
 c4aee363af2a81f9726c5fa13e136ebaf02852bd h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]                           | 2 +-
 trunk/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 9 ---------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 84abda708307..f257ef5de937 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a8b8f6625075c673e21ef9bb418a31b0858472b0
+refs/heads/master: c4aee363af2a81f9726c5fa13e136ebaf02852bd
diff --git a/trunk/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/trunk/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
index 35e106f2ed13..63a77b8b5cfa 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/trunk/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;