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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-12 12:49:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-12 12:49:27 +0200 |
| commit | 1389ac4b976abdc0555280dfc1aa2c3abcc19641 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ec51aa0b1e33201f6f4f3bebc657f9ec65f8539 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
| parent | 69e13ad56f9e2cd81c4f8bfd6267211c10c14c08 (diff) | |
| parent | fd048088306656824958e7783ffcee27e241b361 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/signal
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index c8bd2daf95e..8322141ee48 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *); * ACCESS_ONCE() in different C statements. * * This macro does absolutely -nothing- to prevent the CPU from reordering, - * merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time. + * merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time. Its main intended + * use is to mediate communication between process-level code and irq/NMI + * handlers, all running on the same CPU. */ #define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x)) |