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clocksource: Rework stale comment

AFAICS the hotplug code no longer uses this function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: diego.viola@gmail.com
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180430100344.656525644@infradead.org
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      kernel/time/clocksource.c

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kernel/time/clocksource.c

@@ -173,10 +173,8 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
  * clocksource_mark_unstable - mark clocksource unstable via watchdog
  * @cs:		clocksource to be marked unstable
  *
- * This function is called instead of clocksource_change_rating from
- * cpu hotplug code to avoid a deadlock between the clocksource mutex
- * and the cpu hotplug mutex. It defers the update of the clocksource
- * to the watchdog thread.
+ * This function is called by the x86 TSC code to mark clocksources as unstable;
+ * it defers demotion and re-selection to a kthread.
  */
 void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs)
 {