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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/percpu_counter.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter.c b/lib/percpu_counter.c index 8ee7e5ec21be..3bf4a9984f4c 100644 --- a/lib/percpu_counter.c +++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c @@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ void percpu_counter_set(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(percpu_counter_set); +/** + * This function is both preempt and irq safe. The former is due to explicit + * preemption disable. The latter is guaranteed by the fact that the slow path + * is explicitly protected by an irq-safe spinlock whereas the fast patch uses + * this_cpu_add which is irq-safe by definition. Hence there is no need muck + * with irq state before calling this one + */ void percpu_counter_add_batch(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount, s32 batch) { s64 count; |