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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2013-11-08 16:45:38 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2013-11-08 16:45:38 +0100
commita6bc732b5a96b5403c2637e85c350b95ec6591f3 (patch)
tree4b1c3967cd1de42a5e36e567cbdd18e1f4e8446f /include/uapi
parent9a22a8f558d09a83965d2bbe168294eb8ffb70e9 (diff)
parentdd212bd5bb8b15889821ef79213cdb5bd47c6f85 (diff)
Merge tag 'asoc-v3.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus
ASoC: Updates for v3.13 Some additional fixes for v3.13, the majority of which are removals and downgrades of BUG()s from Takashi.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 009a655a5d35..2fc1602e23bb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -456,13 +456,15 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page {
/*
* Control data for the mmap() data buffer.
*
- * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an rmb(), on
- * SMP capable platforms, after reading this value -- see
- * perf_event_wakeup().
+ * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an smp_rmb(),
+ * after reading this value.
*
* When the mapping is PROT_WRITE the @data_tail value should be
- * written by userspace to reflect the last read data. In this case
- * the kernel will not over-write unread data.
+ * written by userspace to reflect the last read data, after issueing
+ * an smp_mb() to separate the data read from the ->data_tail store.
+ * In this case the kernel will not over-write unread data.
+ *
+ * See perf_output_put_handle() for the data ordering.
*/
__u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */
__u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */