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authorChase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>2006-11-30 04:53:49 +0100
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2006-11-30 04:53:49 +0100
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Fix jiffies.h comment
jiffies.h includes a comment informing that jiffies_64 must be read with the assistance of the xtime_lock seqlock. The comment text, however, calls jiffies_64 "not volatile", which should probably read "not atomic". Signed-off-by: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index c8d5f207c3d4..0ec6e28bccd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
#define __jiffy_data __attribute__((section(".data")))
/*
- * The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it
+ * The 64-bit value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
* without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
* get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
*/