locking/atomics: Update comment about READ_ONCE() and structures
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:33:20 +0000 (16:33 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:50:16 +0000 (14:50 +0100)
commitfed0764fafd8e2e629a033c0f7df4106b0dcb7f0
tree11877084d79ccadb090b726cb280bb76e72ca4aa
parent06bea3dbfe6a4c333c4333362c46bdf4d9e43504
locking/atomics: Update comment about READ_ONCE() and structures

The comment is out of data. Also point out the performance drawback
of the barrier();__builtin_memcpy(); barrier() followed by another
copy from stack (__u) to lvalue;

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453757600-11441-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
[ Made it a bit more readable. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/compiler.h