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locking/atomics: Update comment about READ_ONCE() and structures
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The comment is out of data. Also point out the performance drawback
of the barrier();__builtin_memcpy(); barrier() followed by another
copy from stack (__u) to lvalue;

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453757600-11441-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
[ Made it a bit more readable. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored and Ingo Molnar committed Feb 9, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -263,8 +263,9 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
* In contrast to ACCESS_ONCE these two macros will also work on aggregate
* data types like structs or unions. If the size of the accessed data
* type exceeds the word size of the machine (e.g., 32 bits or 64 bits)
* READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() will fall back to memcpy and print a
* compile-time warning.
* READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() will fall back to memcpy(). There's at
* least two memcpy()s: one for the __builtin_memcpy() and then one for
* the macro doing the copy of variable - '__u' allocated on the stack.
*
* Their two major use cases are: (1) Mediating communication between
* process-level code and irq/NMI handlers, all running on the same CPU,
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