[PATCH] Another couple of alterations to the memory barrier doc
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:48:49 +0000 (05:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:01:19 +0000 (10:01 -0700)
commit2b94895b9281976cf2a0f2f89bf41ee219742235
treebf42dba4bfb46c708d5fbb77ce7010f0058c3389
parent326f28e9ec4b2619c2fd410593fc95fcb0ba6b41
[PATCH] Another couple of alterations to the memory barrier doc

Make another couple of alterations to the memory barrier document following
suggestions by Alan Stern and in co-operation with Paul McKenney:

 (*) Rework the point of introduction of memory barriers and the description
     of what they are to reiterate why they're needed.

 (*) Modify a statement about the use of data dependency barriers to note that
     other barriers can be used instead (as they imply DD-barriers).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt