Commit 2684927c authored Jan 06, 2006 by Zachary Amsden Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 06, 2006

[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>

parent 92f17f01

arch/i386/kernel/process.c

+1 −11

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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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