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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-10-09 20:30:11 +0200
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-12-04 19:52:56 +0100
commit243d1a7977ae0814aa1ccb8bb87f8a4e0822ca8f (patch)
tree06f7f98bf99d03b748bb85f12290c98c57558c57 /kernel
parentlocking: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath() (diff)
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tracepoint: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from comment
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 <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/tracepoint.c9
1 files 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))