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| author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2006-07-14 16:05:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-14 21:56:14 -0700 |
| commit | f92213bae062cf88c099fbfd3040fef512b19905 (patch) | |
| tree | d4bc2ba0cae7dbad57ccc3e6bfe166db82ee2896 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | bb129994c3bff9c5e8df91f05d7e9b6402fbd83f (diff) | |
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[PATCH] remove set_wmb - doc update
This patch removes the reference to set_wmb from memory-barriers.txt
since it shouldn't be used.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/memory-barriers.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 28d1bc3..46b9b38 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1015,10 +1015,9 @@ CPU from reordering them. There are some more advanced barrier functions: (*) set_mb(var, value) - (*) set_wmb(var, value) - These assign the value to the variable and then insert at least a write - barrier after it, depending on the function. They aren't guaranteed to + This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write + barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation. |
