rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments

Changes suggested by review comments from Josh Triplett and
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <20090827220012.GA30525@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index ca560364d8cd..bf8a6f9f134d 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ struct rcu_dynticks {
 struct rcu_node {
         spinlock_t lock;
         long    gpnum;          /* Current grace period for this node. */
+                                /*  This will either be equal to or one */
+                                /*  behind the root rcu_node's gpnum. */
         unsigned long qsmask;   /* CPUs or groups that need to switch in */
                                 /*  order for current grace period to proceed.*/
         unsigned long qsmaskinit;