Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | [PATCH 03/21] x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:45:11 +0100 |
| |
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
That race has been fixed and code cleaned up for a while now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/12e75976dbbb7ece2b0a64238f1d3892dfed1e16.1511497875.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- 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. */ -- 2.14.1
| |