linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: hwlat: update old comment

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:25:17 -0500
From:   Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: hwlat: update old comment


The ftrace hwlat does support a cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
index af344a1b..1199fe1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
@@ -322,10 +322,7 @@ static void move_to_next_cpu(bool initmask)
  * need to ensure nothing else might be running (and thus preempting).
  * Obviously this should never be used in production environments.
  *
- * Currently this runs on which ever CPU it was scheduled on, but most
- * real-world hardware latency situations occur across several CPUs,
- * but we might later generalize this if we find there are any actualy
- * systems with alternate SMI delivery or other hardware latencies.
+ * Executes one loop interaction on each CPU in tracing_cpumask sysfs file.
  */
 static int kthread_fn(void *data)
 {
-- 
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