From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755939AbdJJAXv (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:23:51 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:58076 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755613AbdJJAW6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:22:58 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, will.deacon@arm.com, "Paul E. McKenney" , Steven Rostedt Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 11/15] tracepoint: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from comment Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:22:45 -0700 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.2 In-Reply-To: <20171010001951.GA6476@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20171010001951.GA6476@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17101000-0024-0000-0000-000002E02EB3 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00007870; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000235; SDB=6.00928858; UDB=6.00467489; IPR=6.00709129; BA=6.00005631; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00017467; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2017-10-10 00:22:53 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17101000-0025-0000-0000-000045ADCA38 Message-Id: <1507594969-8347-11-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-10-09_07:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=1 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1707230000 definitions=main-1710100003 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The comment in tracepoint_add_func() mentions smp_read_barrier_depends(), whose use should be quite restricted. This commit updates the comment to instead mention the smp_store_release() and rcu_dereference_sched() that the current code actually uses. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/tracepoint.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c index 685c50ae6300..671b13457387 100644 --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c @@ -212,11 +212,10 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp, } /* - * rcu_assign_pointer has a smp_wmb() which makes sure that the new - * probe callbacks array is consistent before setting a pointer to it. - * This array is referenced by __DO_TRACE from - * include/linux/tracepoints.h. A matching smp_read_barrier_depends() - * is used. + * rcu_assign_pointer has as smp_store_release() which makes sure + * that the new probe callbacks array is consistent before setting + * a pointer to it. This array is referenced by __DO_TRACE from + * include/linux/tracepoint.h using rcu_dereference_sched(). */ rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs); if (!static_key_enabled(&tp->key)) -- 2.5.2