From abfd6e58aed4f89fd69b9b17bc4b4527efe3a645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:59:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Fix comment about _rcu_barrier()/orphanage exclusion In the old days, _rcu_barrier() acquired ->onofflock to exclude rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(), which allowed the latter to avoid memory barriers in callback handling. However, _rcu_barrier() recently started doing get_online_cpus() to lock out CPU-hotplug operations entirely, which means that the comment in rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage() that talks about ->onofflock is now obsolete. This commit therefore fixes the comment. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 74df86bd9204..ac8aed8ee417 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1581,8 +1581,8 @@ rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(int cpu, struct rcu_state *rsp, { /* * Orphan the callbacks. First adjust the counts. This is safe - * because ->onofflock excludes _rcu_barrier()'s adoption of - * the callbacks, thus no memory barrier is required. + * because _rcu_barrier() excludes CPU-hotplug operations, so it + * cannot be running now. Thus no memory barrier is required. */ if (rdp->nxtlist != NULL) { rsp->qlen_lazy += rdp->qlen_lazy;