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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-10-11 23:39:35 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-10-11 23:39:35 +0400 |
| commit | 56c5d900dbb8e042bfad035d18433476931d8f93 (patch) | |
| tree | 00b793965beeef10db03e0ff021d2d965c410759 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
| parent | 4dd95b63ae25c5cad6986829b5e8788e9faa0330 (diff) | |
| parent | ead9d23d803ea3a73766c3cb27bf7563ac8d7266 (diff) | |
| download | linux-56c5d900dbb8e042bfad035d18433476931d8f93.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
sound/core/memalloc.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)) |