From 5b206d48e58204e84d249c4eb18651a1ff7a1274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:05:14 +0200
Subject: vtime: Update a few comments

Update a stale comment from the old vtime era and document some
locking that might be non obvious.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'kernel/sched')

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index a7959e05a9d5..223a35efa0a6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -712,6 +712,13 @@ void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 void vtime_guest_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+	/*
+	 * The flags must be updated under the lock with
+	 * the vtime_snap flush and update.
+	 * That enforces a right ordering and update sequence
+	 * synchronization against the reader (task_gtime())
+	 * that can thus safely catch up with a tickless delta.
+	 */
 	write_seqlock(&tsk->vtime_seqlock);
 	__vtime_account_system(tsk);
 	current->flags |= PF_VCPU;
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