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[3/3] arm64: entry: Remove confusing comment

Message ID 1543322517-470-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series arm64: Add support for speculation barrier instruction (SB) | expand

Commit Message

Will Deacon Nov. 27, 2018, 12:41 p.m. UTC
The comment about SYS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE relying on ERET being
context-synchronizing is confusing and misplaced with kpti. Given that
this is already documented under Documentation/ (see arch-support.txt
for membarrier), remove the comment altogether.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index a7fc77ab4a0a..c7d050207e53 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -344,10 +344,6 @@  alternative_else_nop_endif
 	ldp	x28, x29, [sp, #16 * 14]
 	ldr	lr, [sp, #S_LR]
 	add	sp, sp, #S_FRAME_SIZE		// restore sp
-	/*
-	 * ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE rely on eret context synchronization
-	 * when returning from IPI handler, and when returning to user-space.
-	 */
 
 	.if	\el == 0
 alternative_insn eret, nop, ARM64_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0