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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2006-12-08 07:07:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2006-12-08 07:07:56 +0100 |
| commit | bef986502fa398b1785a3979b1aa17cd902d3527 (patch) | |
| tree | b59c1afe7b1dfcc001b86e54863f550d7ddc8c34 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | Input: handle errors from input_register_device in drivers/macintosh (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iee... (diff) | |
| download | linux-bef986502fa398b1785a3979b1aa17cd902d3527.tar.xz linux-bef986502fa398b1785a3979b1aa17cd902d3527.zip | |
Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/usb/input/hid.h
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7f790f66ec68..58408dd023c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU: STORE *X = c, d = LOAD *X - (Loads and stores overlap if they are targetted at overlapping pieces of + (Loads and stores overlap if they are targeted at overlapping pieces of memory). And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed: @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: (*) set_mb(var, value) - This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write + 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. |