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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2015-10-27 22:53:51 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-12-04 13:39:51 +0300
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locking/barriers, arch: Remove ambiguous statement in the smp_store_mb() documentation
It serves no purpose but to confuse readers, and is most likely a left over from constant memory-barriers.txt updates. I.e.: http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2006/07/15/27 Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -1673,8 +1673,8 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
(*) smp_store_mb(var, value)
This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory
- barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
- insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
+ barrier after it. It isn't guaranteed to insert anything more than a
+ compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
(*) smp_mb__before_atomic();