tick: Document protections for tick related data

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / kernel / time / tick-sched.c

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 81632cd5e3b729568e86f80295a133410c905054..15360e652c85744b731af4382ed9050441716dbe 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ struct tick_sched *tick_get_tick_sched(int cpu)
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) || defined(CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS)
 /*
- * The time, when the last jiffy update happened. Protected by jiffies_lock.
+ * The time, when the last jiffy update happened. Write access must hold
+ * jiffies_lock and jiffies_seq. tick_nohz_next_event() needs to get a
+ * consistent view of jiffies and last_jiffies_update.
  */
 static ktime_t last_jiffies_update;