rcutorture: Make rcutorture_extend_mask() comment match the code
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:06:13 +0000 (15:06 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:42:53 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
The code actually rarely uses more than one type of RCU read-side
protection, as is actually desired given that we need some reasonable
probability of preempting RCU read-side critical sections, which cannot
happen with multiple types of protection.  This comment therefore adjusts
the comment.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

index f14d1b1..2453229 100644 (file)
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ rcutorture_extend_mask(int oldmask, struct torture_random_state *trsp)
        unsigned long randmask2 = randmask1 >> 3;
 
        WARN_ON_ONCE(mask >> RCUTORTURE_RDR_SHIFT);
-       /* Most of the time lots of bits, half the time only one bit. */
+       /* Mostly only one bit (need preemption!), sometimes lots of bits. */
        if (!(randmask1 & 0x7))
                mask = mask & randmask2;
        else