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Subject: time: Remove bogus comments
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:06:50 +0100
There is no global irq lock which makes a syscall magically SMP
safe. Remove the outdated comment concerning do_settimeofday() as
well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
kernel/time.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
Index: linux-3.2/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.2.orig/kernel/time.c
+++ linux-3.2/kernel/time.c
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct tim
return error;
if (tz) {
- /* SMP safe, global irq locking makes it work. */
sys_tz = *tz;
update_vsyscall_tz();
if (firsttime) {
@@ -173,12 +172,7 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct tim
}
}
if (tv)
- {
- /* SMP safe, again the code in arch/foo/time.c should
- * globally block out interrupts when it runs.
- */
return do_settimeofday(tv);
- }
return 0;
}