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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-02-13 15:03:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-13 16:21:18 -0800
commitfbf6bfca76d50abef478ba902b8597ecbadfd390 (patch)
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parentb3c97528689619fc66569b30bf83d09d9929521a (diff)
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rcupdate: fix comment
This comment caused some consternation during fastcall removal. Make it truthful. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index 760dfc233a00..c09605f8d16c 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ static atomic_t rcu_barrier_cpu_count;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(rcu_barrier_mutex);
static struct completion rcu_barrier_completion;
-/* Because of FASTCALL declaration of complete, we use this wrapper */
+/*
+ * Awaken the corresponding synchronize_rcu() instance now that a
+ * grace period has elapsed.
+ */
static void wakeme_after_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
{
struct rcu_synchronize *rcu;
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