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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index ec1289042396..38b1ce161afb 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ Contents: (*) Implicit kernel memory barriers. - - Locking functions. + - Lock acquisition functions. - Interrupt disabling functions. - Sleep and wake-up functions. - Miscellaneous functions. - (*) Inter-CPU locking barrier effects. + (*) Inter-CPU acquiring barrier effects. - - Locks vs memory accesses. - - Locks vs I/O accesses. + - Acquires vs memory accesses. + - Acquires vs I/O accesses. (*) Where are memory barriers needed? @@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@ This is a variation on the mandatory write barrier that causes writes to weakly ordered I/O regions to be partially ordered. Its effects may go beyond the CPU->Hardware interface and actually affect the hardware at some level. -See the subsection "Locks vs I/O accesses" for more information. +See the subsection "Acquires vs I/O accesses" for more information. =============================== @@ -1874,8 +1874,8 @@ provide more substantial guarantees, but these may not be relied upon outside of arch specific code. -ACQUIRING FUNCTIONS -------------------- +LOCK ACQUISITION FUNCTIONS +-------------------------- The Linux kernel has a number of locking constructs: |