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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2019-03-05 14:47:53 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-19 12:39:31 +0200
commitbff9504bfc9c5c6610b42d47f689f350fd969eb8 (patch)
tree73722cdd001252af91dfa80cbcb79da14b629971
parente53f31bffe1d552f496b674cd1733658a268e177 (diff)
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rseq: Clean up comments by reflecting removal of event counter
The "event counter" was removed from rseq before it was merged upstream. However, a few comments in the source code still refer to it. Adapt the comments to match reality. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190305194755.2602-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/signal.c5
-rw-r--r--kernel/rseq.c3
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 76bb8de6bf6b..be5edfdde558 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -549,8 +549,7 @@ static void handle_signal(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs)
int ret;
/*
- * Increment event counter and perform fixup for the pre-signal
- * frame.
+ * Perform fixup for the pre-signal frame.
*/
rseq_signal_deliver(ksig, regs);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 08dfd4c1a4f9..22c233b509da 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -688,10 +688,7 @@ setup_rt_frame(struct ksignal *ksig, struct pt_regs *regs)
sigset_t *set = sigmask_to_save();
compat_sigset_t *cset = (compat_sigset_t *) set;
- /*
- * Increment event counter and perform fixup for the pre-signal
- * frame.
- */
+ /* Perform fixup for the pre-signal frame. */
rseq_signal_deliver(ksig, regs);
/* Set up the stack frame */
diff --git a/kernel/rseq.c b/kernel/rseq.c
index 25e9a7b60eba..849afe749131 100644
--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -254,8 +254,7 @@ static int rseq_ip_fixup(struct pt_regs *regs)
* - signal delivery,
* and return to user-space.
*
- * This is how we can ensure that the entire rseq critical section,
- * consisting of both the C part and the assembly instruction sequence,
+ * This is how we can ensure that the entire rseq critical section
* will issue the commit instruction only if executed atomically with
* respect to other threads scheduled on the same CPU, and with respect
* to signal handlers.