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* [PATCH 10/10] Deprecate useless bug
@ 2005-11-10  0:47 Zachary Amsden
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From: Zachary Amsden @ 2005-11-10  0:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds, Linux Kernel Mailing List,
	H. Peter Anvin, Zwane Mwaikambo, Pratap Subrahmanyam,
	Christopher Li, Eric W. Biederman, Ingo Molnar, Zachary Amsden

Remove the "temporary debugging check" which has managed to live for quite
some time, and is clearly unneeded.  The mm can never be live at this point,
so clearly checking the LDT in the mm->context is redundant as well.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Index: linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14.orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c	2005-11-09 01:46:41.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/kernel/process.c	2005-11-09 06:39:22.000000000 -0800
@@ -415,17 +415,7 @@
 
 void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
 {
-	if (dead_task->mm) {
-		// temporary debugging check
-		if (dead_task->mm->context.size) {
-			printk("WARNING: dead process %8s still has LDT? <%p/%d>\n",
-					dead_task->comm,
-					dead_task->mm->context.ldt,
-					dead_task->mm->context.size);
-			BUG();
-		}
-	}
-
+	BUG_ON(dead_task->mm);
 	release_vm86_irqs(dead_task);
 }
 

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