locking/Documentation: State purpose of memory-barriers.txt
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:22:06 +0000 (10:22 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:57:51 +0000 (10:57 +0200)
commit8d4840e84871847ee1bae56a776907d08a9265f7
treea886a2b2502770feee97fa9cfc1e444ccfffcaa0
parente7720af5f9ac914577e2b810d5c004cdf395fd82
locking/Documentation: State purpose of memory-barriers.txt

There has been some confusion about the purpose of memory-barriers.txt,
so this commit adds a statement of purpose.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461691328-5429-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt