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Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 009a655a5d35..2fc1602e23bb 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -456,13 +456,15 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page { /* * Control data for the mmap() data buffer. * - * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an rmb(), on - * SMP capable platforms, after reading this value -- see - * perf_event_wakeup(). + * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an smp_rmb(), + * after reading this value. * * When the mapping is PROT_WRITE the @data_tail value should be - * written by userspace to reflect the last read data. In this case - * the kernel will not over-write unread data. + * written by userspace to reflect the last read data, after issueing + * an smp_mb() to separate the data read from the ->data_tail store. + * In this case the kernel will not over-write unread data. + * + * See perf_output_put_handle() for the data ordering. */ __u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */ __u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */ |