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| author | Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> | 2017-12-04 15:07:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2017-12-17 13:59:53 +0100 |
| commit | 6669a692605547892a026445e460bf233958bd7f (patch) | |
| tree | 6d7416ca1ac9b19cc425e91a2ddff1fc2b5b2ad7 | |
| parent | b02fcf9ba1211097754b286043cd87a8b4907e75 (diff) | |
x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races
That race has been fixed and code cleaned up for a while now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Laight <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c index 52089c043160..aa9d51eea9d0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c @@ -219,18 +219,6 @@ __visible unsigned int __irq_entry do_IRQ(struct pt_regs *regs) /* high bit used in ret_from_ code */ unsigned vector = ~regs->orig_ax; - /* - * NB: Unlike exception entries, IRQ entries do not reliably - * handle context tracking in the low-level entry code. This is - * because syscall entries execute briefly with IRQs on before - * updating context tracking state, so we can take an IRQ from - * kernel mode with CONTEXT_USER. The low-level entry code only - * updates the context if we came from user mode, so we won't - * switch to CONTEXT_KERNEL. We'll fix that once the syscall - * code is cleaned up enough that we can cleanly defer enabling - * IRQs. - */ - entering_irq(); /* entering_irq() tells RCU that we're not quiescent. Check it. */ |