The variable chunks is being shifted right and re-assinged the shifted value which is then returned. Since chunks is not being read afterwards the assignment is redundant and the >>= operator can be replaced with a shift >> operator instead. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c index c9f0f3d63f75..eaf25a234ff5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static u64 mbm_overflow_count(u64 prev_msr, u64 cur_msr, unsigned int width) u64 shift = 64 - width, chunks; chunks = (cur_msr << shift) - (prev_msr << shift); - return chunks >>= shift; + return chunks >> shift; } static u64 __mon_event_count(u32 rmid, struct rmid_read *rr) -- 2.33.1
