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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-10-13 17:13:56 +0100 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-10-13 17:13:56 +0100 |
| commit | e758936e02700ff88a0b08b722a3847b95283ef2 (patch) | |
| tree | 50c919bef1b459a778b85159d5929de95b6c4a01 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
| parent | 239cfbde1f5843c4a24199f117d5f67f637d72d5 (diff) | |
| parent | 4480f15b3306f43bbb0310d461142b4e897ca45b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
include/asm-x86/statfs.h
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 c8bd2daf95ec..8322141ee480 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)) |