From: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 18:47:36 +0000 (+0400)
Subject: runtime: update comment on stack allocator
X-Git-Tag: go1.2rc2~1407
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46137f227bd11777f535271e842eac14fc65fd1c;p=gostls13.git

runtime: update comment on stack allocator

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9665046
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diff --git a/src/pkg/runtime/stack.c b/src/pkg/runtime/stack.c
index e9a35672f5..b6f64aa766 100644
--- a/src/pkg/runtime/stack.c
+++ b/src/pkg/runtime/stack.c
@@ -81,13 +81,10 @@ runtime·stackalloc(uint32 n)
 	if(g != m->g0)
 		runtime·throw("stackalloc not on scheduler stack");
 
-	// Stack allocator uses malloc/free most of the time,
-	// but if we're in the middle of malloc and need stack,
-	// we have to do something else to avoid deadlock.
-	// In that case, we fall back on a fixed-size free-list
-	// allocator, assuming that inside malloc all the stack
-	// frames are small, so that all the stack allocations
-	// will be a single size, the minimum (right now, 5k).
+	// Stacks are usually allocated with a fixed-size free-list allocator,
+	// but if we need a stack of non-standard size, we fall back on malloc
+	// (assuming that inside malloc and GC all the stack frames are small,
+	// so that we do not deadlock).
 	if(n == FixedStack || m->mallocing || m->gcing) {
 		if(n != FixedStack) {
 			runtime·printf("stackalloc: in malloc, size=%d want %d\n", FixedStack, n);