linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86-64: remove int 0xcc from entry

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Message-Id: <1313447210-9149-1-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:26:50 -0300
From:	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....EDU>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: remove int 0xcc from entry_64.S documentation

Commit 3ae36655b97a03fa1decf72f04078ef945647c1a (x86-64: Rework vsyscall
emulation and add vsyscall= parameter) removed the special use of the
0xcc IDT vector.

Remove it from Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt also.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....EDU>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
---
 Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt b/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
index 7869f14..bc7226e 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ Some of these entries are:
    magically-generated functions that make their way to do_IRQ with
    the interrupt number as a parameter.
 
- - emulate_vsyscall: int 0xcc, a special non-ABI entry used by
-   vsyscall emulation.
-
  - APIC interrupts: Various special-purpose interrupts for things
    like TLB shootdown.
 
-- 
1.7.4.4

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