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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2017-12-04 15:07:10 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-12-17 13:59:53 +0100
commit6669a692605547892a026445e460bf233958bd7f (patch)
tree6d7416ca1ac9b19cc425e91a2ddff1fc2b5b2ad7
parentb02fcf9ba1211097754b286043cd87a8b4907e75 (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x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races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.c12
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. */