x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races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 <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: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
index 52089c043160b5b54b667f6054bdb4c53f269d43..aa9d51eea9d0e806e51122421e77d67dd31bb027 100644 (file)
--- 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. */