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x86-64, doc: 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.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313447210-9149-1-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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Cesar Eduardo Barros and committed by
H. Peter Anvin
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Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
··· 27 27 magically-generated functions that make their way to do_IRQ with 28 28 the interrupt number as a parameter. 29 29 30 - - emulate_vsyscall: int 0xcc, a special non-ABI entry used by 31 - vsyscall emulation. 32 - 33 30 - APIC interrupts: Various special-purpose interrupts for things 34 31 like TLB shootdown. 35 32