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Subject[tip:x86/vdso] x86-64, doc: Remove int 0xcc from entry_64.S documentation
Commit-ID:  664ef2123f4abc05857bf9b2dcccb800fa6fce26
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/664ef2123f4abc05857bf9b2dcccb800fa6fce26
Author: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
AuthorDate: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:26:50 -0300
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:04:08 -0700

x86-64, doc: Remove int 0xcc from entry_64.S documentation

Commit 3ae36655b97a03fa1decf72f04078ef945647c1a (x86-64: Rework vsyscall
emulation and add vsyscall= parameter) removed the special use of the
0xcc IDT vector.

Remove it from Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt also.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313447210-9149-1-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
---
Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt | 3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt b/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
index 7869f14..bc7226e 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ Some of these entries are:
magically-generated functions that make their way to do_IRQ with
the interrupt number as a parameter.

- - emulate_vsyscall: int 0xcc, a special non-ABI entry used by
- vsyscall emulation.
-
- APIC interrupts: Various special-purpose interrupts for things
like TLB shootdown.


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