Merge branches 'acpi-ec' and 'acpi-x86'

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / lib / percpu-refcount.c

diff --git a/lib/percpu-refcount.c b/lib/percpu-refcount.c
index 4f6c6eb..8d09260 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/percpu-refcount.c
+++ b/lib/percpu-refcount.c
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ static unsigned long __percpu *percpu_count_ptr(struct percpu_ref *ref)
  * @flags: PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags
  * @gfp: allocation mask to use
  *
- * Initializes @ref.  If @flags is zero, @ref starts in percpu mode with a
- * refcount of 1; analagous to atomic_long_set(ref, 1).  See the
- * definitions of PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags for flag behaviors.
+ * Initializes @ref.  @ref starts out in percpu mode with a refcount of 1 unless
+ * @flags contains PERCPU_REF_INIT_ATOMIC or PERCPU_REF_INIT_DEAD.  These flags
+ * change the start state to atomic with the latter setting the initial refcount
+ * to 0.  See the definitions of PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags for flag behaviors.
  *
  * Note that @release must not sleep - it may potentially be called from RCU
  * callback context by percpu_ref_kill().