From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:57:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: x86/fpu: Improve the comment for the fpu::counter field
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=126009993faa7a750835e67f3ccb90cee124ffa7;p=linux-beck.git

x86/fpu: Improve the comment for the fpu::counter field

This was pretty hard to read, improve it.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 64d6b5d97ce9..28df85561730 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -435,11 +435,11 @@ struct fpu {
 	union thread_xstate *state;
 	/*
 	 * This counter contains the number of consecutive context switches
-	 * that the FPU is used. If this is over a threshold, the lazy fpu
-	 * saving becomes unlazy to save the trap. This is an unsigned char
-	 * so that after 256 times the counter wraps and the behavior turns
-	 * lazy again; this to deal with bursty apps that only use FPU for
-	 * a short time
+	 * during which the FPU stays used. If this is over a threshold, the
+	 * lazy fpu saving logic becomes unlazy, to save the trap overhead.
+	 * This is an unsigned char so that after 256 iterations the counter
+	 * wraps and the context switch behavior turns lazy again; this is to
+	 * deal with bursty apps that only use the FPU for a short time:
 	 */
 	unsigned char counter;
 };