[PATCH] x86: spinlock.h: Fix comment

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 18:40:33 EST


This comment is no longer true.
We support up to 2^16 CPUs because __ticket_t is an u16 if
NR_CPUS is larger than 256.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 76bfa2c..85a6b57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
* Simple spin lock operations. There are two variants, one clears IRQ's
* on the local processor, one does not.
*
- * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which are currently limited to 256
- * CPUs.
+ * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which support up to 2^16 CPUs.
*
* (the type definitions are in asm/spinlock_types.h)
*/
--
1.7.7.3

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