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]>
Index: linux-2.6.18-rc1/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc1.orig/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt 2006-07-14 15:33:44.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc1/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt 2006-07-14 15:38:05.000000000 -0400
@@ -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.
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