linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 29/40] srcu: Fix bogus try_check

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:58:26 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, bobby.prani@...il.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 29/40] srcu: Fix bogus try_check_zero() comment

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcu.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcu.c b/kernel/rcu/srcu.c
index 0b511de7ca4d..1a2dc74bb625 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcu.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcu.c
@@ -260,10 +260,9 @@ static void srcu_gp_start(struct srcu_struct *sp)
 }
 
 /*
- * @@@ Wait until all pre-existing readers complete.  Such readers
- * will have used the index specified by "idx".
- * the caller should ensures the ->completed is not changed while checking
- * and idx = (->completed & 1) ^ 1
+ * Wait until all readers counted by array index idx complete, but loop
+ * a maximum of trycount times.  The caller must ensure that ->completed
+ * is not changed while checking.
  */
 static bool try_check_zero(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx, int trycount)
 {
-- 
2.5.2