[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: add some comments

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Commit-ID:  8740f9418c78dcad694b46ab25d1645d5aef1f5e
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/8740f9418c78dcad694b46ab25d1645d5aef1f5e
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:01:29 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:53:29 +0200

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.036984214@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
 include/linux/perf_counter.h |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 4809ae1..8bf764f 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];
 };
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