From f92213bae062cf88c099fbfd3040fef512b19905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:05:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] remove set_wmb - doc update This patch removes the reference to set_wmb from memory-barriers.txt since it shouldn't be used. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 28d1bc3edb1..46b9b389df3 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1015,10 +1015,9 @@ CPU from reordering them. There are some more advanced barrier functions: (*) set_mb(var, value) - (*) set_wmb(var, value) - These assign the value to the variable and then insert at least a write - barrier after it, depending on the function. They aren't guaranteed to + This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write + barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation. -- 2.41.1