Re: [PATCH] x86: fix typo(?) in step.c

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > So in theory the bug should manifest itself as block-step mode never 
> > clearing itself, once activated.
> 
> That doesn't happen in the trivial sense of "never", because in the 
> normal case an actual block-step exception happens and that makes the 
> hardware clear BTF from the MSR (as well as TF from eflags).  So it 
> would only come up in a more obscure case. [...]

ah, i missed that detail - this indeed makes this code a lot less 
dangerous.

/me stops worrying

	Ingo
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