locking/barriers, arch: Remove ambiguous statement in the smp_store_mb() documentation
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:53:51 +0000 (12:53 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:39:51 +0000 (11:39 +0100)
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@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

index aef9487..c85054d 100644 (file)
@@ -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();