Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove misleading examples of the barriers in wake_*()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 07 2015 - 07:10:36 EST


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:04:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That said, it would be good if Paul (or anyone really) can explain to me
> the reason for: 5af4692a75da ("smp: Make control dependencies work on
> Alpha, improve documentation"). The Changelog simply states that Alpha
> needs the mb, but not how/why etc.

Also, I suppose Documentation/circular-buffer.txt needs help.
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