vtime: Update a few comments

Update a stale comment from the old vtime era and document some
locking that might be non obvious.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index a7959e05a9d5..223a35efa0a6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -712,6 +712,13 @@ void vtime_user_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 void vtime_guest_enter(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+        /*
+         * The flags must be updated under the lock with
+         * the vtime_snap flush and update.
+         * That enforces a right ordering and update sequence
+         * synchronization against the reader (task_gtime())
+         * that can thus safely catch up with a tickless delta.
+         */
         write_seqlock(&tsk->vtime_seqlock);
         __vtime_account_system(tsk);
         current->flags |= PF_VCPU;