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- Add a comment about interrupts:

6) If counter might be written by an interrupt, readers should block
interrupts.

- Fix a typo in sample of use.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2010-06-24 00:04:38 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
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@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
* pure reads. But if they have to fetch many values, it's better to not allow
* preemptions/interruptions to avoid many retries.
*
* 6) If counter might be written by an interrupt, readers should block interrupts.
* (On UP, there is no seqcount_t protection, a reader allowing interrupts could
* read partial values)
*
* Usage :
*
* Stats producer (writer) should use following template granted it already got
@ -46,7 +50,7 @@
* start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&stats->syncp);
* tbytes = stats->bytes64; // non atomic operation
* tpackets = stats->packets64; // non atomic operation
* } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&stats->lock, syncp));
* } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&stats->syncp, start));
*
*
* Example of use in drivers/net/loopback.c, using per_cpu containers,