i386 Deprecate useless bug

PATCH In review Zachary Amsden 1 participant 1 message Nov 8, 2005

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Zachary Amsden

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2005-11-08 04:35 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 15/21 i386 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 <[email protected]>

arch/i386/kernel/process.c +1 ~~-11~~

Index: linux-2.6.14-zach-work/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
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@@ -417,17 +417,7 @@ 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);
 }