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Message-Id: <20201029165019.14218-8-urezki@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:50:11 +0100
From:   "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...ymobile.com>
Subject: [PATCH 08/16] uaccess: Cleanup PREEMPT_COUNT leftovers

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT is now unconditionally enabled and will be
removed. Cleanup the leftovers before doing so.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
---
 include/linux/uaccess.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index c7c6e8b8344d..d6473a72a336 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ static inline bool pagefault_disabled(void)
  *
  * This function should only be used by the fault handlers. Other users should
  * stick to pagefault_disabled().
- * Please NEVER use preempt_disable() to disable the fault handler. With
- * !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT, this is like a NOP. So the handler won't be disabled.
- * in_atomic() will report different values based on !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT.
+ *
+ * Please NEVER use preempt_disable() or local_irq_disable() to disable the
+ * fault handler.
  */
 #define faulthandler_disabled() (pagefault_disabled() || in_atomic())
 
-- 
2.20.1

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