READ_ONCE: Fix comment describing 2x32-bit atomicity
authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 May 2020 20:59:51 +0000 (21:59 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fri, 5 Jun 2020 10:02:44 +0000 (11:02 +0100)
commit5872f1a2e5c783783d51e96468f0ff6aede61182
tree5b77d8a9917e6655f5f421221cfe6c4b38fc078b
parent10415533a9062c9e5e27c421d9c232f0cae108fd
READ_ONCE: Fix comment describing 2x32-bit atomicity

READ_ONCE() permits 64-bit accesses on 32-bit architectures, since this
crops up in a few places and is generally harmless because either the
upper bits are always zero (e.g. for a virtual address or 32-bit time_t)
or the architecture provides 64-bit atomicity anyway.

Update the corresponding comment above compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(),
which incorrectly states that 32-bit x86 provides 64-bit atomicity, and
instead reference 32-bit Armv7 with LPAE.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
include/linux/compiler.h