[tip:locking/core] locking/barriers, arch: Remove ambiguous statement in the smp_store_mb() documentation

From: tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 07:02:48 EST


Commit-ID: 2d142e599bf73ab70a3457e6947f86935245415e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2d142e599bf73ab70a3457e6947f86935245415e
Author: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:53:51 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:39:51 +0100

locking/barriers, arch: Remove ambiguous statement in the smp_store_mb() documentation

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

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

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-5-git-send-email-dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 aef9487..c85054d 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1673,8 +1673,8 @@ 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();
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