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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-10-17 09:20:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-10-17 09:20:26 -0700 |
| commit | 651dab4264e4ba0e563f5ff56f748127246e9065 (patch) | |
| tree | 016630974bdcb00fe529b673f96d389e0fd6dc94 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
| parent | 40b8606253552109815786e5d4b0de98782d31f5 (diff) | |
| parent | 2e532d68a2b3e2aa6b19731501222069735c741c (diff) | |
Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linus
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
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)) |