From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:41:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf: Update a stale comment
X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~13343^2~8
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git

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>
---

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 @@ 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);