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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2006-09-19 09:56:44 +0400 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2006-09-19 09:56:44 +0400 |
| commit | 0612ec48762bf8712db1925b2e67246d2237ebab (patch) | |
| tree | 01b0d69c9c9915015c0f23ad4263646dd5413e99 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | 4263cf0fac28122c8381b6f4f9441a43cd93c81f (diff) | |
| parent | 47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0612ec48762bf8712db1925b2e67246d2237ebab.tar.xz | |
Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 28d1bc3edb1c..46b9b389df35 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. |