[PATCH 4/4] doc,smp: Remove ambiguous statement in smp_store_mb()
From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Tue Oct 27 2015 - 15:55:36 EST
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
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