From 2684927c6b938ec7a679891e0ec1fa0709c521bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:11:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] x86: Deprecate useless bug
Remove the "temporary debugging check" which has managed to live for quite
some time, and is clearly unneeded. The mm can never be live at this point,
so clearly checking the LDT in the mm->context is redundant as well.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
index 6081a10d34161..45e7f0ac4b04b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -402,17 +402,7 @@ void flush_thread(void)
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);
release_vm86_irqs(dead_task);
}
--
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