Merge branches 'work.misc' and 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...

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

diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
index e426b0cb9ac6314b8e19ada428e81fe1eabea7fb..a1ad5b7d5521be6340bf221c1a1c5983507a1754 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
  *
  * See also complete_all(), wait_for_completion() and related routines.
  *
- * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
- * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
+ * If this function wakes up a task, it executes a full memory barrier before
+ * accessing the task state.
  */
 void complete(struct completion *x)
 {
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(complete);
  *
  * This will wake up all threads waiting on this particular completion event.
  *
- * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
- * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
+ * If this function wakes up a task, it executes a full memory barrier before
+ * accessing the task state.
  *
  * Since complete_all() sets the completion of @x permanently to done
  * to allow multiple waiters to finish, a call to reinit_completion()