From: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix jiffies.h comment
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:12:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610120113.09242.chase.venters@clientec.com> (raw)
jiffies.h includes a comment informing that jiffies_64 must be read with the
assistance of the xtime_lock seqlock. The comment text, however, calls
jiffies_64 "not volatile", which should probably read "not atomic".
Signed-off-by: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index c8d5f20..0ec6e28 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ #define TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC(TUSEC) (SH_DIV
#define __jiffy_data __attribute__((section(".data")))
/*
- * The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it
+ * The 64-bit value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
* without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
* get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
*/
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