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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-14 16:05:18 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-14 16:05:18 +0200
commitc7d77a7980e434c3af17de19e3348157f9b9ccce (patch)
treeb32c5988ce8239b80c83e94c22d68f5eb0fb84da /arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c
parent0ce423b6492a02be11662bfaa837dd16945aad3e (diff)
parent8a53554e12e98d1759205afd7b8e9e2ea0936f48 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/efi, to pick up a pending EFI fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c
index 50e7b626afe8..c5113c7ce2fd 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -333,11 +333,11 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
childregs = (struct pt_regs *) (new_stack + STACKFRAME_SZ);
/*
- * A new process must start with interrupts closed in 2.5,
- * because this is how Mingo's scheduler works (see schedule_tail
- * and finish_arch_switch). If we do not do it, a timer interrupt hits
- * before we unlock, attempts to re-take the rq->lock, and then we die.
- * Thus, kpsr|=PSR_PIL.
+ * A new process must start with interrupts disabled, see schedule_tail()
+ * and finish_task_switch(). (If we do not do it and if a timer interrupt
+ * hits before we unlock and attempts to take the rq->lock, we deadlock.)
+ *
+ * Thus, kpsr |= PSR_PIL.
*/
ti->ksp = (unsigned long) new_stack;
p->thread.kregs = childregs;