linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] perf: Update a stale comment

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Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2013 05:19:14 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf: Update a stale comment

Commit-ID:  394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:41:23 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:34:23 +0100

perf: Update a stale comment

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: james.hogan@...tec.com
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@...ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9s5mze78gmlz19agt39i8rii@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index c52a32f..e8b168a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ again:
 	rb->user_page->data_head = head;
 
 	/*
-	 * Now check if we missed an update, rely on the (compiler)
-	 * barrier in atomic_dec_and_test() to re-read rb->head.
+	 * Now check if we missed an update -- rely on previous implied
+	 * compiler barriers to force a re-read.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(head != local_read(&rb->head))) {
 		local_inc(&rb->nest);
--
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