Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / drivers / oprofile / cpu_buffer.h

diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h b/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
index 63f81c44846ae28b5bf2020d8fe445e4e4377d7b..272995d20293ab10aa4d77fb44d7f4bd79d76afb 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ static inline void op_cpu_buffer_reset(int cpu)
        cpu_buf->last_task = NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * op_cpu_buffer_add_data() and op_cpu_buffer_write_commit() may be
+ * called only if op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve() did not return NULL or
+ * entry->event != NULL, otherwise entry->size or entry->event will be
+ * used uninitialized.
+ */
+
 struct op_sample
 *op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve(struct op_entry *entry, unsigned long size);
 int op_cpu_buffer_write_commit(struct op_entry *entry);