From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:01:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: perf_counter: add some comments
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~13973^2~381
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8740f9418c78dcad694b46ab25d1645d5aef1f5e;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

perf_counter: add some comments

Add a few comments because I was forgetting what field what for what
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.036984214@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 4809ae18a940..8bf764fc6220 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -344,10 +344,12 @@ struct file;
 
 struct perf_mmap_data {
 	struct rcu_head			rcu_head;
-	int				nr_pages;
-	atomic_t			wakeup;
-	atomic_t			head;
-	atomic_t			events;
+	int				nr_pages;	/* nr of data pages  */
+
+	atomic_t			wakeup;		/* POLL_ for wakeups */
+	atomic_t			head;		/* write position    */
+	atomic_t			events;		/* event limit       */
+
 	struct perf_counter_mmap_page   *user_page;
 	void 				*data_pages[0];
 };