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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-05-17 11:42:11 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-10-22 12:20:46 -0400
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NonMoving: Add summarizing Notewip/gc/docs
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diff --git a/includes/rts/storage/TSO.h b/includes/rts/storage/TSO.h
index 070ecbebaa..d706282796 100644
--- a/includes/rts/storage/TSO.h
+++ b/includes/rts/storage/TSO.h
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ typedef struct StgTSO_ {
* setting the stack's mark bit (either the BF_MARKED bit for large objects
* or otherwise its bit in its segment's mark bitmap).
*
+ * To ensure that mutation does not proceed until the stack is fully marked the
+ * mark phase must not set the mark bit until it has finished tracing.
+ *
*/
#define STACK_DIRTY 1