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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	dave@stgolabs.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] doc,smp: Remove ambiguous statement in smp_store_mb()
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:53:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445975631-17047-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445975631-17047-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net>

It serves no purpose but to confuse readers, and is most
likely a left over from constant memory-barriers.txt
updates. Ie:

http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2006/07/15/27

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index b5fe765..ee6fbb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1683,8 +1683,8 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
  (*) smp_store_mb(var, value)
 
      This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory
-     barrier after it, depending on the function.  It isn't guaranteed to
-     insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
+     barrier after it.  It isn't guaranteed to insert anything more than a
+     compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
 
 
  (*) smp_mb__before_atomic();
-- 
2.1.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 19:53 [PATCH -tip 0/4] A few updates around smp_store_mb() Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 19:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] arch,cmpxchg: Remove tas() definitions Davidlohr Bueso
2015-12-04 12:01   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/cmpxchg, arch: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 19:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] arch,barrier: Use smp barriers in smp_store_release() Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 20:03   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-12-04 12:01   ` [tip:locking/core] lcoking/barriers, arch: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 19:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86,asm: Re-work smp_store_mb() Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 21:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-27 22:01     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 22:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-28 19:49       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-11-02 20:15       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-11-03  0:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-03  1:36           ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-01-12 13:57           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-12 17:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12 17:45               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-12 18:04                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12 20:30               ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-12 20:54                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12 20:59                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-12 21:37                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12 22:14                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-13 16:20                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-12 22:21                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-12 22:55                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-12 23:24                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-13 16:17                           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-13 16:25                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-13 16:33                               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-13 16:42                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-13 16:53                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-13 17:00                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-13 18:38                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-27 19:53 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2015-12-04 12:01   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/barriers, arch: Remove ambiguous statement in the smp_store_mb() documentation tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2015-10-27 23:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] arch,cmpxchg: Remove tas() definitions David Howells

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