[PATCH 14/16] x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races
From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon Nov 20 2017 - 12:09:07 EST
That race has been fixed and code cleaned up for a while now.
---
arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
index 49cfd9fe7589..68e1867cca80 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. */
--
2.13.6