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authorSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>2009-10-22 19:19:34 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-23 13:51:45 +0200
commit72f279b256d520e321a850880d094bc0bcbf45d6 (patch)
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parent964fe080d94db82a3268443e9b9ece4c60246414 (diff)
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generic-ipi: Fix misleading smp_call_function*() description
After commit:8969a5ede0f9e17da4b943712429aef2c9bcd82b "generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()", wait = 0 can be guaranteed. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1256210374-25354-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--kernel/smp.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index c9d1c7835c2f..8bd618f0364d 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -265,9 +265,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct call_single_data, csd_data);
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
* @wait: If true, wait until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code. Note that @wait
- * will be implicitly turned on in case of allocation failures, since
- * we fall back to on-stack allocation.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
*/
int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, void (*func) (void *info), void *info,
int wait)
@@ -355,9 +353,7 @@ void __smp_call_function_single(int cpu, struct call_single_data *data,
* @wait: If true, wait (atomically) until function has completed
* on other CPUs.
*
- * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned. Note that @wait
- * will be implicitly turned on in case of allocation failures, since
- * we fall back to on-stack allocation.
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned.
*
* You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler. Preemption
@@ -443,8 +439,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function_many);
* Returns 0.
*
* If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
- * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func. In case of allocation
- * failure, @wait will be implicitly turned on.
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*
* You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.