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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-10 17:32:46 +0400 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-10 17:32:46 +0400 |
| commit | 0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f449d929b5df9e126e839f388ff0fd2b52028a0 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | 6f1f3d0ab5c3eeea9f04486481c25e9afdfa26c5 (diff) | |
| parent | b57f95a38233a2e73b679bea4a5453a1cc2a1cc9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
Pull in the bdi fixes and ARM platform changes that other outstanding
patches depend on.
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7f5809eddee6..631ad2f1b229 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ============================ By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> + Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Contents: @@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ Contents: - And then there's the Alpha. + (*) Example uses. + + - Circular buffers. + (*) References. @@ -2226,6 +2231,21 @@ The Alpha defines the Linux kernel's memory barrier model. See the subsection on "Cache Coherency" above. +============ +EXAMPLE USES +============ + +CIRCULAR BUFFERS +---------------- + +Memory barriers can be used to implement circular buffering without the need +of a lock to serialise the producer with the consumer. See: + + Documentation/circular-buffers.txt + +for details. + + ========== REFERENCES ========== |