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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 48f5aab117ae..a27f4f17c382 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -263,8 +263,9 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s * In contrast to ACCESS_ONCE these two macros will also work on aggregate * data types like structs or unions. If the size of the accessed data * type exceeds the word size of the machine (e.g., 32 bits or 64 bits) - * READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() will fall back to memcpy and print a - * compile-time warning. + * READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() will fall back to memcpy(). There's at + * least two memcpy()s: one for the __builtin_memcpy() and then one for + * the macro doing the copy of variable - '__u' allocated on the stack. * * Their two major use cases are: (1) Mediating communication between * process-level code and irq/NMI handlers, all running on the same CPU, |