make it a regular function.

Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20201212155530.23098-9-cfontana@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>