From 394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:41:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Update a stale comment Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9s5mze78gmlz19agt39i8rii@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- 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 c52a32fa5592..e8b168af135b 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ static void perf_output_put_handle(struct perf_output_handle *handle) 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); -- GitLab