[PATCH] remove set_wmb - doc update

f92213ba · Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> · 2006-07-14 16:05:01 -04:00

This patch removes the reference to set_wmb from memory-barriers.txt
since it shouldn't be used.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: f92213bae062cf88c099fbfd3040fef512b19905
Parents: bb129994

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1 files changed · +2 −3

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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 28d1bc3..46b9b38 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.
 
 