Commit f92213ba authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent bb129994
...@@ -1015,10 +1015,9 @@ CPU from reordering them. ...@@ -1015,10 +1015,9 @@ CPU from reordering them.
There are some more advanced barrier functions: There are some more advanced barrier functions:
(*) set_mb(var, value) (*) set_mb(var, value)
(*) set_wmb(var, value)
These assign the value to the variable and then insert at least a write This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write
barrier after it, depending on the function. They aren't guaranteed to barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation. insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
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