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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2011-06-21 01:29:39 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-09-28 21:38:16 -0700
commite0f23060adfa3f27beaa7918eff70258b88471b6 (patch)
treef0e8ed4ad97a1fc4d3c2c5af639a63063ae52e32 /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
parent72fe701b70e6ced35d734b676c13efbc8fc769a9 (diff)
rcu: Update comments to reflect softirqs vs. kthreads
We now have kthreads only for flavors of RCU that support boosting, so update the now-misleading comments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index a90bf3c1749..ecd48a2e3ee 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1478,7 +1478,8 @@ static int rcu_cpu_kthread_should_stop(int cpu)
/*
* Per-CPU kernel thread that invokes RCU callbacks. This replaces the
- * earlier RCU softirq.
+ * RCU softirq used in flavors and configurations of RCU that do not
+ * support RCU priority boosting.
*/
static int rcu_cpu_kthread(void *arg)
{