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Date:   Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:08:35 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Bart Van Assche <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
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Subject: [tip:locking/core] locking/lockdep: Update two outdated comments

Commit-ID:  29fc33fb7283970701355dc89badba4ed21c7092
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/29fc33fb7283970701355dc89badba4ed21c7092
Author:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:00:45 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 07:55:43 +0100

locking/lockdep: Update two outdated comments

synchronize_sched() has been removed recently. Update the comments that
refer to synchronize_sched().

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: johannes.berg@...el.com
Cc: tj@...nel.org
Fixes: 51959d85f32d ("lockdep: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu()") # v5.0-rc1
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214230058.196511-11-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 34cd87c65f5d..c7ca3a4def7e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -4188,9 +4188,9 @@ static void __lockdep_free_key_range(void *start, unsigned long size)
  * Used in module.c to remove lock classes from memory that is going to be
  * freed; and possibly re-used by other modules.
  *
- * We will have had one sync_sched() before getting here, so we're guaranteed
- * nobody will look up these exact classes -- they're properly dead but still
- * allocated.
+ * We will have had one synchronize_rcu() before getting here, so we're
+ * guaranteed nobody will look up these exact classes -- they're properly dead
+ * but still allocated.
  */
 void lockdep_free_key_range(void *start, unsigned long size)
 {
@@ -4209,8 +4209,6 @@ void lockdep_free_key_range(void *start, unsigned long size)
 	/*
 	 * Wait for any possible iterators from look_up_lock_class() to pass
 	 * before continuing to free the memory they refer to.
-	 *
-	 * sync_sched() is sufficient because the read-side is IRQ disable.
 	 */
 	synchronize_rcu();