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DateMon, 15 Aug 2005 22:08:37 -0700
FromZachary Amsden <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] i386 virtualization - Remove some dead debugging code
Chris Wright wrote:

>* zach@vmware.com (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> 
>
>>This code is quite dead.  Release_thread is always guaranteed that the mm has
>>already been released, thus dead_task->mm will always be NULL.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
>>Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c	2005-08-15 10:46:18.000000000 -0700
>>+++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/process.c	2005-08-15 10:48:51.000000000 -0700
>>@@ -421,17 +421,7 @@
>> 
>> 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);
>> 
>>
>
>This BUG_ON() has different semantics than old dead one.  Is there a
>point?  exit_mm() has already reset this to NULL, no?
> 
>

Yes, completely.  This BUG() could be eliminated entirely, as trivial 
inspection shows.  I can't fathom a single reason why it should still 
exist, but the presence of it in the first place made be wonder if there 
may be some erudite reason for it.  Thus I raised the BUG to a higher 
power - obviously the LDT is gone if the MM is gone.

Zach
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