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On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:48:48AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> A few nits on Documentation/memory-barriers.txt and some pointless
> comments elsewhere.  With the suggested Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> fixes:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, I think I'll cut the thing into a number of smaller patches with
identical end result. Will (hopefully) post a full new series tomorrow
somewhere.

I was thinking like:
 1 - aggressively employ asm-generic/barrier.h
 2 - Reformulate _The_ document to ACQUIRE/RELEASE
 3 - add the new store/load thingies

That should hopefully be slightly easier to look at.