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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/percpu-refcount.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/percpu-refcount.c b/lib/percpu-refcount.c index 4f6c6ebbbbde..8d092609928e 100644 --- a/lib/percpu-refcount.c +++ b/lib/percpu-refcount.c @@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ static unsigned long __percpu *percpu_count_ptr(struct percpu_ref *ref) * @flags: PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags * @gfp: allocation mask to use * - * Initializes @ref. If @flags is zero, @ref starts in percpu mode with a - * refcount of 1; analagous to atomic_long_set(ref, 1). See the - * definitions of PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags for flag behaviors. + * Initializes @ref. @ref starts out in percpu mode with a refcount of 1 unless + * @flags contains PERCPU_REF_INIT_ATOMIC or PERCPU_REF_INIT_DEAD. These flags + * change the start state to atomic with the latter setting the initial refcount + * to 0. See the definitions of PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags for flag behaviors. * * Note that @release must not sleep - it may potentially be called from RCU * callback context by percpu_ref_kill(). |