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authorRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>2018-02-01 15:04:17 +0100
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>2018-02-01 15:04:17 +0100
commit7bf14c28ee776be567855bd39ed8ff795ea19f55 (patch)
tree6113748c673e85fccc2c56c050697789c00c6bc2 /kernel/tracepoint.c
parent87cedc6be55954c6efd6eca2e694132513f65a2a (diff)
parent5fa4ec9cb2e6679e2f828033726f758ea314b9c5 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V. Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/tracepoint.c')
-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))