From 6669a692605547892a026445e460bf233958bd7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races That race has been fixed and code cleaned up for a while now. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204150605.150551639@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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 52089c043160..aa9d51eea9d0 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. */