From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932283Ab3KFNUW (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 08:20:22 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48935 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932245Ab3KFNUR (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 08:20:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 05:19:14 -0800 From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra Message-ID: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, michael@ellerman.id.au, peterz@infradead.org, vince@deater.net, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, VICTORK@il.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mikey@neuling.org Reply-To: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, michael@ellerman.id.au, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, vince@deater.net, fweisbec@gmail.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, tglx@linutronix.de, VICTORK@il.ibm.com, oleg@redhat.com, mikey@neuling.org To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf: Update a stale comment Git-Commit-ID: 394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88 X-Mailer: tip-git-log-daemon Robot-ID: Robot-Unsubscribe: Contact to get blacklisted from these emails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.1 (terminus.zytor.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:19:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Commit-ID: 394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88 Author: Peter Zijlstra AuthorDate: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:41:23 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar CommitDate: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:34:23 +0100 perf: Update a stale comment Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michael Neuling Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Victor Kaplansky Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Anton Blanchard Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9s5mze78gmlz19agt39i8rii@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index c52a32f..e8b168a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ again: rb->user_page->data_head = head; /* - * Now check if we missed an update, rely on the (compiler) - * barrier in atomic_dec_and_test() to re-read rb->head. + * Now check if we missed an update -- rely on previous implied + * compiler barriers to force a re-read. */ if (unlikely(head != local_read(&rb->head))) { local_inc(&rb->nest);