2006-10-12 06:13:18

by Chase Venters

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Subject: [PATCH] Fix jiffies.h comment

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 <[email protected]>

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.
*/