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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7367ada13208..b12df9137e1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1950,6 +1950,14 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: For load from persistent memory, existing read memory barriers are sufficient to ensure read ordering. + (*) io_stop_wc(); + + For memory accesses with write-combining attributes (e.g. those returned + by ioremap_wc(), the CPU may wait for prior accesses to be merged with + subsequent ones. io_stop_wc() can be used to prevent the merging of + write-combining memory accesses before this macro with those after it when + such wait has performance implications. + =============================== IMPLICIT KERNEL MEMORY BARRIERS =============================== |