From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752339AbdKTRJD (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:09:03 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:48144 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752182AbdKTRII (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:08:08 -0500 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 1BA3A2192A Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=luto@kernel.org From: Andy Lutomirski To: X86 ML Cc: Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Brian Gerst , Dave Hansen , Linus Torvalds , Josh Poimboeuf , Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH 14/16] x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:07:45 -0800 Message-Id: <609e646725126421291a51cde128c17ff08c3f7f.1511195781.git.luto@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.13.6 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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