linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 004/140] KVM: x86: remove WARN_ON from get_kernel

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Date:	Wed, 28 May 2014 21:32:23 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 004/140] KVM: x86: remove WARN_ON from get_kernel_ns()

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>

commit b351c39cc9e0151cee9b8d52a1e714928faabb38 upstream.

Function and callers can be preempted.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73721

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1109,7 +1109,6 @@ static inline u64 get_kernel_ns(void)
 {
 	struct timespec ts;
 
-	WARN_ON(preemptible());
 	ktime_get_ts(&ts);
 	monotonic_to_bootbased(&ts);
 	return timespec_to_ns(&ts);


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