Commit-ID: 7dba33c6346c337aac3f7cd188137d4a6d3d1f3a Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7dba33c6346c337aac3f7cd188137d4a6d3d1f3a Author: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:00:14 +0200 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> CommitDate: Wed, 2 May 2018 16:10:41 +0200
clocksource: Rework stale comment AFAICS the hotplug code no longer uses this function. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] --- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index 605656df16c4..84f37420fcf5 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -173,10 +173,8 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) * clocksource_mark_unstable - mark clocksource unstable via watchdog * @cs: clocksource to be marked unstable * - * This function is called instead of clocksource_change_rating from - * cpu hotplug code to avoid a deadlock between the clocksource mutex - * and the cpu hotplug mutex. It defers the update of the clocksource - * to the watchdog thread. + * This function is called by the x86 TSC code to mark clocksources as unstable; + * it defers demotion and re-selection to a kthread. */ void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) {
