x86: Document the NMI handler about not using paranoid_exit

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Linus cleaned up the NMI handler but it still needs some comments to
explain why it uses save_paranoid but not paranoid_exit. Just to keep
others from adding that in the future, document why it's not used.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Steven Rostedt 2011-12-08 12:32:27 -05:00 • committed by Steven Rostedt

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arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S

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