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authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>2006-01-06 00:11:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-06 08:33:35 -0800
commit2684927c6b938ec7a679891e0ec1fa0709c521bd (patch)
tree8696e818f64294be38f0d6e2fd677ba35abc7582
parent92f17f0171e864a2cbe448c5b7b473e72a7d27b8 (diff)
downloadlinux-2684927c6b938ec7a679891e0ec1fa0709c521bd.tar.gz
[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>
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/process.c12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 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);
}